Israel set a record last year with 4.55 million tourists. That was an 11% increase over 2018 which itself was a 42% increase over 2016....

On Friday night we begin Sukkot, the Festival of Booths. In ancient times this was the most popular Jewish holiday and I have to say,...

One of the best-selling Latin music artists of all-time, the Puerto Rican-born Ozuna [Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado] has sold some 15 million...

What do you do when as an Israel tour guide you are tasked with planning an outing in Israel for "people who have gone everywhere and...

One of the major issues in doing archaeology in Israel is that often times villages and towns in the last one hundred years have been...

I just read an article on CNN about a tourist being fined $1200 for trying to take sand from Sardinia's beaches and it got me...

This past week your trusty Israel tour guide took a 3-day trip to the coast and north of Israel: Wineries, dairies, national parks an...

The diplomatic breakthroughs just keep on coming around here. Fresh on the heels of the UAE and Israel opening up official relations -...

A few months back, I visited the grave of the most famous Englishman ever: William Shakespeare... Did you know he was buried in Jerusalem?...

It has been one of the distinct pleasures of my professional life to partner with Pastor Dr. Kevin Dieckilman as the guide for his Israel...

This looks spectacular. An absolutely star-studded ensemble cast is rebooting the 1978 movie Death on the Nile - itself a movie...

The ink is not even wet - forget dry - and already citizens and companies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates are reaching out to each...

A major travel update: Visitors from 20 countries can now enter Israel without requiring entering into quarantine upon arrival. ...

In the previous months your intrepid tour guide of Israel has posted about both a 1-minute and 30-second coronavirus tests, developed in...

So you have been on a hike in Israel and saw a bunch of trail markers and wanted to know what they meant. Or you plan on hiking in Israel...

An amazing video of an Israeli family on vacation at the incredible Beresheet Hotel on the edge of Machtesh Ramon (often called Ramon...

The Yorkshire Museum in the UK has been having some fun as everyone has been on lockdown, tourism has ground to a halt and museums have...

Tonight begins Tisha B'Av. According to the rabbis, the original sin of Tisha B'Av, the Jewish holiday which occurs today and which...

One of the highlights of visiting Israel with me as your tour guide of Israel is not hearing me speak at all. What do you mean, Kobi? Why...

Ever since Israel closed its borders in mid-March, everyone has been wondering just when tourism is going to start up again....