Israeli tourism, hit hard by coronavirus closures, optimistically awaits recovery

Even though Israel is now allowing in tourists, “people are still cautious. It will take a few years” before Israel returns to pre-coronavirus numbers, which, in 2019, stood at a whopping 4.5 million tourists, said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahum. For two years now, since the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, hotels in Israel …