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Showing posts with label Eilat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eilat. Show all posts
Thursday, February 9, 2017
ISIS Fires Missiles at Eilat, Israel's Iron Dome Intercepts - israel today
Monday, April 4, 2016
Tourists to Israel Expected to Increase to Five Billion Annually By JNS - BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS
Tourists to Israel Expected to Increase to Five Billion Annually
“He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel.” Lamentations 2:1 (The Israel Bible™)
By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS.org
Twenty-five years ago, when Nancy Broth started her business, she signed a contract with El Al (the only airline that flew to Israel at the time) and helped people book their flights abroad. Today, Broth—owner of Caves Travel in Baltimore, MD.—works with multiple airlines, dozens of Israeli hotels, and a group of touring companies and guides. She says traveling to Israel has become not just for Jews, but an alluring vacation for people of all ages, sexual orientations, and creeds.
“It’s the Old City of Jerusalem, Masada, Ein Gedi, the Dead Sea,” says Broth, naming some of the most popular tourist attractions in Israel. “More seasoned people like to go to the Galilee, to Eilat, to visit Petra (the ancient city in Jordan). They go to the spa and the wineries—they all love the wineries.”
“Israel is the only place in the world where students, women, and kids can go by themselves to swim in the Tel Aviv beach at sunset, bike through the mountains, or jog through one of the central parks,” echoes Amir Halevi, director general of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. “There is no other place where there is so much to do and people can feel safe doing it.”
Halevi tells JNS.org that he has seen a steady rise in people from all over the world traveling to Israel, even during times of heightened security concerns such as the current wave of terror—and despite the high travel costs. Hotel prices in Israel have increased by 70 percent over the last decade. Broth points out that even with alternatives to El Al, such as Turkish Airlines and Austrian Airlines, taking a plane halfway around the world is expensive.
Enter Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, who is trying to make Israel travel more affordable. In late February, Levin presented a bill designed to reduce the cost of vacationing in Israel by 20 percent over five years. The bill passed its first Israeli Knesset reading, and Halevi says it is expected to come up for second and third readings within the next few weeks and hopefully pass.
The bill changes the status of hotels in Israel from commercial venues to national infrastructure, which would allow their construction to be approved through a fast and simple procedure by the country’s National Infrastructure Committee. Further, independent local committees would be able to approve hotels’ addition of up to 20 percent of their rooms for residential purposes, which would reduce the risk of investment for the entrepreneur and increase financing sources, meaning faster return on investment.
Halevi says the tourism minister projects that if the bill passes, some 15,000 hotel rooms will be added within five years in Israel, and about 27,000 in 10 years. During the last decade, only about 3,000 new hotel rooms were built in Israel. Likewise, Israeli tourism officials expect the number of annual tourists in the Jewish state to increase from 3 billion to 5 billion within the next three to five years.
The Yad Sarah organization—Israel’s largest group of volunteers (6,000 members) providing a spectrum of free or nominal cost services designed to make life easier for the sick, people with disabilities, senior citizens, and their families—is also playing a role in making travel to Israel more accessible. About a year and a half ago, Yad Sarah opened a tourist services program that allows people who might not have been able to travel to the Jewish state because of sickness or disability to fulfill their dreams.
“We make it so that people, no matter their boundaries, can come and travel in Israel,” says Nadia Alalu, director of tourist services program.
Yad Sarah offers hospital beds, hoists, commodes, oxygen concentrators, and any other equipment that might be needed to make a tourist comfortable and provide for his needs while in Israel. The organization’s wheelchair-accessible vans can pick up travelers at the airport and bring them directly to their destination. Additionally, tour guides who specialize in accommodating people with physical disabilities can be recommended or arranged through Yad Sarah for a nominal fee.
“They come to us because they are having a bar mitzvah and they want their elderly grandmother to be there,” says Alalu, providing an example of the requests she receives. Sometimes, people come from abroad to receive special medical treatment. Then, too, Yad Sarah can set up their hotel room like a home-hospital.
Yad Sarah is available every day from the early morning until 7 p.m., and for emergencies 24/7, says Alalu. A tourist who falls and sprains his ankle, for example, can borrow a pair of crutches from Yad Sarah, just like an Israeli citizen could do through the organization.
“There is nowhere else in the world where services like this exist for free,” Alalu says.
“Everybody just loves Israel,” says Broth, who notes that she is always exploring the creation of new tour packages. “What is not to love?”
Saturday, May 17, 2014
GOD YOU ARE AWESOME!!! - Photos of His Glorious Creation
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Rocky Mountains in Colorado - May 2014
Camel in Negev Desert near Eilat, Israel - Oct. 2009
Red Sea near Eilat, Israel - Oct. 2009
Negev Desert in Israel south of Beer'sheva - Oct. 2009
Bearded Iris - Charlotte, NC April 2014
Pansies in Charlotte - April 2014
Bradford Pear Tree - Charlotte, April 2014
Charlotte, NC - Oct. 2013
From Jerusalem looking west - Oct. 2008
Tel Aviv, Israel beach - Nov. 2010
Martin Home in Charlotte - June 2011
Mallards - Charlotte, NC - March 2014
Turtle - Charlotte, NC May 2014
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Rocky Mountains - near Denver, CO May 16, 2014
OUR GOD
IS AN
AWESOME GOD!
YOU HAVE SEEN
JUST A FEW OF
WHAT HE HAS
CREATED
TO BLESS US!!!
THANK YOU LORD!
Photos by Steve Martin, Founder, Love For His People
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Fish of the Sea - ISRAEL365
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
Israeli Commandoes Raid Iranian Arms Ship - TWO VIDEOS
Missiles intended to be launched against Israel
VIDEO: Israeli Commandoes
Raid Iranian Arms Ship
Wednesday, March 05, 2014 | Israel Today Staff
Israeli naval commandoes on Wednesday raided a cargo ship near Sudan, confiscating a cargo of dozens of advanced missiles that were making their way to Hamas-ruled Gaza.
The shipment of B–302 missiles, each with a range of up to 200 kilometers (124 miles), would have significantly increased Hamas’ ability to threaten Israel’s population centers.
The raid took place during the predawn hours in international waters between Sudan and Eritrea. Army officials said the ship’s captain tried to throw off the Israelis by first heading toward Iraq, before correcting his course.
There were no casualties on either side, and the ship’s crew of 17 was taken in for questioning, while the ship itself, the Klos C, was sailed back to Eilat where its cargo could be safely unloaded.
The shipment of missiles is believed to have originated in Syria, possibly part of a Syrian stockpile that Iran is trying to redistribute to other allies. The missiles were then flown to Iran, where they were loaded on the Klos C hidden in sacks of cement. From Iran, the cargo was to make its way by sea to the Port of Sudan, and then be smuggled into Gaza via the Sinai Peninsula.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon issued a statement shortly after news of the raid broke:
“It has once again become clear that Iran continues to be the greatest exporter of terror in the world, with the express purpose of destabilizing the Middle East. …The Iranian regime continues to deceive the world; while it shows its smiling face it continues to be the biggest threat to world peace. …This Iranian attempt to transfer weapons to the Gaza Strip is additional evidence that Gaza is a terrorist entity under Iranian auspices preparing to strike deep into Israel.”
A statement by army officials suggested coordination with foreign intelligence agencies, the most likely candidates being America and Egypt. The new regime in Cairo has made itself an enemy of Hamas, and would have wanted to prevent the missiles from reaching the terror group via Egyptian soil.
Watch footage of Israeli soldiers uncovering the missile shipment:
Watch a short video prepared by the IDF showing the origin of the missiles and the attempted method of smuggling them into Gaza:
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