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"This is a land which Hashem your God occupies, on which Hashem your God always keeps his eye, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year. 39; year. " Deuteronomy 11:12 (The Israel Bible ™)
Camel in the Judean Desert, Israel (ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com)
The number of tourists visiting Israel continued to climb during the first half of 2018, with 2.1 million tourist entries recorded from January to June, an increase of 19% over last year, the Ministry of Tourism and the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a joint publication on Monday.
"Marketing efforts and activities in the ministry lead us to new records: for the first time we exceeded the threshold of 2 million visitors for half-year tourist arrivals", Tourism Minister Yariv Levin said, "I am pleased to see that the first half of the year has been the fruit of our intensive marketing efforts and activities around the world. "
The increase is in part due to an increasing number of flights from Europe to Eilat, with new airlines joining the trend, the ministry said.
Only in June, 310,200 tourists entered the country, an increase of 2% Most arrived by plane (280,200), or 25% more than in June 2016.
Since the beginning of the 39, year, tourism has injected more than 12 billion NIS (3.3 billion dollars) into the Israeli economy.
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