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2020-12-18 09:35:58 GMT2020-12-18 17:35:58(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Nick Kolyohin
JERUSALEM, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) As Israel is facing a possible third national lockdown with the surge in the number of COVID-19 infections, the Dead Sea resort seems to have become a growing magnet for domestic tourists looking for a break from the stress caused by the pandemic.
The Dead Sea resort, along with the the coastal city of Eilat, both on the shores of the Red Sea, was granted on Wednesday special government permission to remain open for tourism, at least until mid-January, as a Green Island.
Tsippy and Yaakov Hollander, a tourist couple at the Dead Sea resort, told Xinhua that the Dead Sea is not yet full of people as it used to be before the COVID-19 crisis.
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by Nick Kolyohin
JERUSALEM, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) As Israel is facing a possible third national lockdown with the surge in the number of COVID-19 infections, the Dead Sea resort seems to have become a growing magnet for domestic tourists looking for a break from the stress caused by the pandemic.
The Dead Sea resort, along with the the coastal city of Eilat, both on the shores of the Red Sea, was granted on Wednesday special government permission to remain open for tourism, at least until mid-January, as a Green Island.
Tsippy and Yaakov Hollander, a tourist couple at the Dead Sea resort, told Xinhua that the Dead Sea is not yet full of people as it used to be before the COVID-19 crisis.
DUBAI: About 50,000 Israeli tourists have visited the UAE since the two countries signed the Abraham Accords normalization agreement on Sept. 15, the Israeli tourism minister said on Wednesday.
“We’re talking at the moment about roughly 50,000 Israelis all over the Emirates,” Israel’s Tourism Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen said during a virtual press conference. “I would say that a lot of Israelis, they just went there . . . Israelis are very adventurous by nature,” she said.
Israel and the UAE signed an agreement to open diplomatic, trade and economic relations between the two countries. As part of the agreement the tourism minister said that Israelis would soon be able to travel to the UAE visa-free and this was likely to start from January next year.
The road ahead is just as unsettling. When will governments distribute vaccines and open their borders? Is it safe to plan a trip for the summer, or should we wait until late 2021 - or later? What will travel look like in the coming months?
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