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Dubai Travel Rush Proves Nothing Stops Israeli Wanderlust
Dubai Travel Rush Proves Nothing Stops Israeli Wanderlust
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The first flight carrying Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates landed November 8 at Dubai international Airport.
Five weeks later, roughly 50,000 Israelis had been to the UAE, according to Israeli Tourism Minister Orit Farkash Hacohen.
Those numbers will likely skyrocket once visa-free travel goes into effect by January, she remarked at a press conference on December 16.
“Israelis are very adventurous and are the first to go see any new attraction,” she said.
Thousands of Israelis celebrated Hanukkah in the glittering capital city of Dubai this year, as the Abraham Accords opened the UAE to Israeli passport holders for the first time in history.
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The group’s social media posts and content was heavily supported and shared by official Israeli government accounts, including those run by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, and several other bodies and officials.
Assistant to US President Donald Trump, Avi Berkowitz, also retweeted content produced by the group.
Members of the organization were interviewed, in Arabic, on the i24 news network, which is seen as supportive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and spoke with a member of Netanyahu’s social media team, Hananya Naftali, on camera. That latter interview garnered upwards of a quarter of a million views on Twitter and tens of thousands more on Facebook.
Dubai travel rush proves nothing stops Israeli wanderlust
Despite the pandemic, tens of thousands of Israelis fly to the previously forbidden United Arab Emirates.
Photo courtesy of Flydubai Airlines.
The first flight carrying Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates landed November 8 at Dubai international Airport.
Five weeks later, roughly 50,000 Israelis had been to the UAE, according to Israeli Tourism Minister Orit Farkash Hacohen.
Those numbers will likely skyrocket once visa-free travel goes into effect by January, she remarked at a press conference on December 16.
“Israelis are very adventurous and are the first to go see any new attraction,” she said.