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    NEW YORK – Sept. 8th, 2022/PRNewswire• In July and August of 2018 the Israel Ministry of Tourism recorded record numbers of visitors from the United States. Israel welcomed 78,000 travelers from the United States in July 2022 that’s a 4 percent increase from 2019, and 71,000 total travelers from the United States in August 2022 that’s an increase of 13% from 2019.

    Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner for North America. He said, “It’s so exciting to once more see an increase of tourism to Israel from the United States, and already exceeding or even surpassing our record breaking numbers of 2019”. “The United States is the most popular destination for Israel inbound tourism. Actually, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had record-breaking numbers of tourism entry each month. It’s a fantastic positive trend that we’re happy to see and we anticipate an increase in the years to come.”

    Canada is on track to surpass Israel’s tourist arrivals 7200 tourists are expected to visit Israel in July 2022, and 6,600 tourists in August.

    Gal Hana (Consul and Director for Canada, Israel Ministry of Tourism) declared that “it is so exciting to see how Canada’s tourism to Israel is rebounding.” We are still not far from our record 2019 numbers and we expect that this surge in Israel travel will continue to increase as Canadians feel more comfortable travelling across the world.”

    Israel has hosted more than 4.6million visitors in the year 2019, 969,600 of which were from the United States. Since May that year, when Israel opened to all visitors, regardless of their vaccination status over 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.

    Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism

    The Israel Ministry of Tourism(IMOT) is Israel’s main tourism organization. It is in charge of promotion and marketing initiatives in order to position Israel as a popular tourist destination. IMOT aims promote Israel as a tourist destination and to boost economic growth. נווה פריצקי IMOT is a proponent of Israel’s amazing variety of religious, cultural food, historical, and culinary attractions – each a perfect combination of tradition and modernity. The IMOT offices North America are in New York City, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

    For details on the upcoming events and attractions that are scheduled in Israel go to IMOT’s site at israel.travel. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get the most recent information.