Tourism to Israel continues to grow. In February, Israel welcomed a record-breaking 222,000 visitors, the highest number of tourists in a single month in Israel's history. In the first two months of 2010, 434,300 tourists visited Israel, compared with 283,400 visitors in the first two months of 2009.
According to Reports • CJN, March 11, 2010 • U.S. Appears Naive as Syria Courts Iran • In "Fanning the winds of war" (Winnipeg Free Press, March 2) Samuel Segev wrote about how, following the appointment of Robert Ford as the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in five years, the Obama administration was counting on Damascus to distance itself from Tehran and to stop arms transfers to Hezbollah Full Text›› According to Reports Archive ››
Backgrounder • Dec. 18, 2009 • The Situation in Gaza After Operation Cast Lead • Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in September 2005. In 2007, Hamas seized power in Gaza in a bloody fratricidal coup. Between September 2005 and December, 2008, over 8,000 rockets were fired into southern Israel...Full Text›› Backgrounder Archive ››
Online Directory of Middle East Experts in Israel • The Directory of Middle East Experts win Israel is now available as a secure, searchable, online database. A comprehensive guide to academic, media and political experts on the Middle East, the Directory of Middle East Experts in Israel has become an invaluable tool for media around the globe....
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