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Israel reopens borders to vaccinated foreign tourists after 20 months of blockade

Politiko 2021-11-01 14:18:07

Israel reopens borders to vaccinated foreign tourists after 20 months of

Israel opened today to vaccinated visitors after 20 months of blockade, with Jews and Palestinians relying on tourism expressing hope that the effects of the pandemic on the economy will gradually fade.

Before Israel imposed the first of several coronavirus closures, tourism was growing at a galloping pace in a region where there were countless religious sites sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews.

A record 4.6 million visitors were recorded in 2019, an increase of 11 percent compared to 2018, generating revenue of $ 7.3 billion, or 1.5 percent of Israel's GDP, foreign media report .

Despite record high Covid broadcast figures in late August and September, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's coalition government avoided a new deadlock.

Authorities launched an aggressive campaign to vaccinate citizens with a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which knocked out infections. Israel has placed vaccinations at the center of its reopening strategy.

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