Israeli travel and tourism a year after October 7

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 92

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Updated: OCTOBER 29, 2024 12:59
A board showing a number of cancelled flights at the Ben Gurion International Airport on March 11, 2020. Israeli authorities imposed severe restrictions on all travelers entering Israel, including a two week home quarantine of all arrivals from all countries to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (photo credit: FLASH90)
A board showing a number of cancelled flights at the Ben Gurion International Airport on March 11, 2020. Israeli authorities imposed severe restrictions on all travelers entering Israel, including a two week home quarantine of all arrivals from all countries to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
(photo credit: FLASH90)

With COVID behind us, we thought travel and tourism would return to normal. But in Israel, that hope was short-lived. On Simhat Torah, October 7, 2023, Israel was dragged into a war on multiple fronts. Podcast hosts Mark Gordon and David Harris look at the industry a year later, in the company of El Al's Chief Counsel Sharon Brownstone and Kim Melchior, the co-CEO of IGT - Israel & Global Travel.

Travellers at Ben Gurion International Airport where flights were being delayed, as the workers of the airport went on strike, in a protest for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, on September 2, 2024 (Credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)
Travellers at Ben Gurion International Airport where flights were being delayed, as the workers of the airport went on strike, in a protest for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, on September 2, 2024 (Credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

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