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I contribute to Honest Reporting! Why? When truth is no longer printed in one of the nation's former great newspaper's then Democracy and our very freedom are' threatened. (See 1 below.)
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Will Obama get anything reciprocal from Cuba? (See 2 below.)
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Police have more to fear from those they arrest than those arrested by the police. (See 3 below.)
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I recently read an article about European Churches being abandoned due to lack of attendance and support. This is not related to population shift because families generally stay put in Europe unlike here in America. It is a simple and direct effect of declining church membership.
What are the implications? I admit to not being overly religious and seldom attend my own place of worship but I support it financially because I believe that is important. I had a very dear psychiatrist friend who maintained it would be a very dull world without people of faith and who believed in a higher being. My dear friend was also not religious himself but he understood the importance of worship beyond self.
One cannot state religion saved the world from wars but I submit those who fought and won them did so because they believed their cause was morally right and their enemy was wrong. Until recently Russia was a godless nation and I daresay you show me a godless state and I will show you one where the citizens live a more wretched and unfulfilled life.
One can argue religion must offer something more compelling for those who are disaffected. In other words religion must change with the times. However, that does not mean the essential message of 'love your fellow person' must change. It simply needs to be delivered in a manner more appealing.
Are we teaching our children respect for authority, do we have a responsibility to do so? Is there a connection between this failing and the decline in religion and many young people's attitude toward police? You decide. (See 4 below.)
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Obama's economic record belies White House talk. (See 5 below.)
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Israeli Tourism Statistics! People still come and well they should. One of the world's most unique areas. (See 6 below..)
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As the Iowa Primary looms on the horizon former Governor Huckabee, might appeal to that state's social and religious conservatives but eventually money usually trumps and that favors JEB over the longer nominating campaign run.
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1)Forcing the NY Times to Print the Truth
As the Palestinians shift the conflict with Israel to the international arena, Israel’s perspective on matters of diplomacy has been largely neglected. While there is no shortage of articles detailing Palestinian demands, little or nothing is being said about Israel’s legitimate efforts for peace and justice.
That’s why HonestReporting has taken the bold step of publishing a full page advertisement in the New York Times to highlight a speech by Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor, delivered before the UN General Assembly on November 24, 2014.
“The text of Ambassador Prosor’s speech is required reading for anyone who wants a clear expression of Israel’s case before the world,” said HonestReporting CEO Joe Hyams. “Unfortunately, if you want people to read it in the New York Times, you have to pay for an ad.”
The ad features extended highlights from Prosor’s speech, including facts about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians that many at the UN and the media have downplayed or ignored entirely.
“Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, less than half of one percent are truly free – and they are all citizens of Israel,” Prosor proclaimed at the UN. “Our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state.”
“We will never apologize for being a free and independent people in our sovereign state. And we will never apologize for defending ourselves,” Prosor said.
Prosor also drew attention to the 850,000 Jewish refugees of the first Israel-Arab war. “Why is it, that 67 years later, the displacement of the Jews has been completely forgotten by this institution while the displacement of the Palestinians is the subject of an annual debate?”
He also presented the international community with a stark choice on how to move forward:
You can work to end Palestinian incitement, or stand by as hatred and extremism take root for generations to come.You can prematurely recognize a Palestinian state, or you can encourage the Palestinian Authority to break its pact with Hamas and return to direct negotiations.The choice is yours. You can continue to steer the Palestinians off course or pave the way to real and lasting peace.
“Ambassador Prosor’s speech is a source of pride for those who understand the justice of Israel’s cause,” Mr. Hyams added. “And we’re proud to bring it to the readers of the New York Times.”
HonestReporting has long criticized the New York Times’ coverage of Israel. The paper won HR’s 2013 Dishonest Reporting Award. More recently, the Times came under fire for its coverage of the Gaza war, including the use of casualty figures. An in-depth study of Times’ coverage of Israel in the first months of 2014 revealed a high percentage of articles that expressed criticism of Israel or depicted Israeli actions in a negative light.
HonestReporting would like to thank Laura and Peter D. Weinstein for their generous support in enabling us to produce this advertisement.
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2)Where Are Cuba’s Political Prisoners?
Fifty-three of those jailed by the Castros were supposed to have been freed in the Obama deal.
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
Who and where are the 53 Cuban political prisoners that President Obama promised would be freed by Havana as part of a deal to liberate three convicted Cuban spies serving lengthy sentences in the U.S.?
I asked the State Department this last week. State referred me to the White House. White House officials declined to provide the list of names citing “concern that publicizing it would make it more difficult to ensure that Cuba follows through, and continues with further steps in the future.”
Bottom line: The U.S. government cannot confirm that they have been released and is not certain they’re going to be released, even though the three Cuban spies have already been returned.
A government official told me that keeping the names of the 53 quiet will give Cuba the opportunity to release them as a sovereign measure, rather than at the behest of the U.S., and that this could allow for additional releases.
In other words, the Castros are sensitive boys who throw despotic tantrums when their absolute power is questioned. Asking them to keep their word is apparently a trigger.
Mr. Obama was destined to have trouble changing Cuba policy. Nixon went to China. But “Obama goes to Havana”? That sounds like stand-up comedy. A man with some humility might have prepared for the challenge. Mr. Obama did not. Now, little by little, what he says he got in the “negotiations” seems to be evaporating while what he gave away appears reckless.
The U.S. president hasn’t gone to Havana, not yet anyway. But he did use the prisoner swap to announce that he plans to unconditionally open diplomatic relations with the military dictatorship, something that the Castros have long demanded. Count that as concession one.
He said he would ease restrictions on American travel to the island and make it legal to use U.S. credit cards and debit cards in Cuba, thereby boosting revenues for the military-owned tourism industry. That’s concession two.
His promise to review Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terror sounded like he had already made up his mind. “At a time when we are focused on threats from al Qaeda to ISIL, a nation that meets our conditions and renounces the use of terrorism should not face this sanction,” Mr. Obama said.
That would complete the concession trifecta. Cuba still supports the FARC, the Colombian terrorist group, it got caught in 2013 trying to smuggle weapons through the Panama Canal to North Korea, and credible intelligence analysts say Cuba has provided Venezuela the technology it needs to falsify identities for Middle East terrorists.
If Mr. Obama is serious about selling U.S.-Cuba detente, a little less obfuscation would be nice. The U.S. has not confirmed the identity of the intelligence asset who it says had been in a Cuban prison for nearly 20 years and was also traded for the Cuban spies. Mr. Obama said the Cuban, before his arrest, had supplied key information to the U.S. that led to the nabbing of those spies, as well as three others.
Press reports and intel experts I talked to say the “asset” is Rolando Sarraff. But a debate is raging in the intelligence community about whether Mr. Sarraff, who has not been heard from since his arrival on U.S. soil, is all he’s cracked up to be by Mr. Obama. Another possibility is that his résumé was embellished to cover up for what was essentially a trade of the convicted spies for Alan Gross, the U.S. Agency for International Development contractor who was arrested by Cuban state security in Havana in 2009.
Mr. Obama claimed in his speech that Mr. Gross’s release was a humanitarian gesture on the part of Cuba. That’s not believable. Almost from the day Mr. Gross was arrested, Havana made it clear that he would not be released until the Cuban spies were returned to the island. He was a hostage.
If the Castro brothers renege on their promise to free the 53 it wouldn’t be a surprise. But nothing in their history suggests they would want to keep the release a secret. On the contrary, going back to the days of Jimmy Carter , Fidel has always released dissidents as a propaganda tool to boost his image as a benevolent leader—even while he sends them into exile or only paroles them.
Most of the prisoners arrested in Cuba’s Black Spring of March 2003, for example, were shipped off to Spain when international pressure forced the regime to let them out. The regime boasted about it; the press and the Catholic Church reported it as a humanitarian gesture.
In the weeks since Mr. Obama’s rapprochement with Cuba, reports from the island say that more than 50 dissidents have been arrested, including the husband of the dissident blogger Yoani Sánchez. Most have been released but some remain in prison.
Don’t expect much outrage from Washington. Mr. Obama wouldn’t want to damage his newly reconciled relationship with the police state.
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3) What Statistics Say About Policing America
Police officers have more to fear from the public than the public has to fear from police.
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Statistics can promote a healthier dialogue between “black” African-American communities and “blue” uniformed police. When combined with basic principles of statistical inference, they provide insights into the likely apprehensions on each side. They also point to more effective ways to reduce violence without compromising public safety or private liberty.
Let’s start by looking at the data. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Statistics reports that on-duty police over the past decade killed about 4,000 people, an average of 400 a year, of which a third were black or African-American. However, police reporting to the FBI is neither mandatory nor uniform. After surveying major police departments, reporters from The Wall Street Journal estimated that the true number is about 50% higher. Some informal monitoring groups suggest the true number is closer to 1,000 a year.
As a benchmark I will estimate 800 police killings a year, which doubles the FBI estimate and is midway between the WSJ and monitoring estimates. As a benchmark I’ll also assume that the racial breakdown of the 800 matches the breakdown in the FBI data. That works out to approximately 270 African-Americans killed each year by on-duty police.
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Statistics reports an average 51 officers killed a year over the past decade, with 24 killed by people identified as black. Assuming this data is comprehensive, about 11 black civilians are killed by on-duty police (some of whom are black) for every police officer killed by black civilians.
Federal statistics report 43 million blacks or African-Americans in the U.S. and 630,000 police officers, or about 68 blacks per officer. Combining that with the 11-to-1 homicide ratio suggests that police are six times as likely to be killed by black civilians than black civilians are to be killed by police.
A parallel calculation suggests a yearly average of 530 killings of nonblacks by police officers and 27 killings of police officers by nonblacks for a ratio of nearly 20 to 1. There are about 430 nonblacks per police officer. Hence police are 22 times as likely to be killed by nonblack civilians than nonblack civilians are to be killed by police.
Now let’s consider the inferences that can reasonably be drawn from these statistics. In risk of being killed, U.S. police officers have substantially more to fear from the public—white or black—than the public has to fear from police. Yet the juxtaposition suggests that the police respond far more defensively to blacks (a 1-to-6 homicide ratio) than to whites (a 1-to-22 homicide ratio). African-Americans would correctly perceive the police as three to four times quicker to pull a lethal trigger against them than against whites.
Police officers naturally take a different perspective. While blacks are 14% of the U.S. population, they account for 47% of killings of police. Given a random sample, blacks are 5.6 times as likely as nonblacks to kill a police officer. This likely causes officers to act more defensively with unfamiliar blacks than with unfamiliar nonblacks.
The scale and intensity of recent protests confirm that many blacks are genuinely fearful of police. The preceding statistics suggest that many police are likely to be genuinely fearful of blacks.
Let me caution that none of these statistics suggests that race causes or prevents violence. I am simply tracing the probabilistic inferences that both civilians and police tend to make in high-stress situations with limited information. While these inferences aren’t fair to the vast majority on either side, they are rational responses to fear and uncertainty. As such, neither legislation nor indoctrination can banish them.
For black and blue to lose less red blood on our streets, each side needs to appreciate the other’s fears. Each side needs to offer the other the respect and consideration it rightly demands for itself.
Mr. Osband is the author of “Pandora’s Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance” (Columbia Business School Press, 2011).
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By Roger L Simon
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made an extraordinary speech on New Year’s Day to Cairo’s Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry calling for a long overdue virtual ecclesiastical revolution in Islam. This is something no Western leader has the had the courage to do, certainly not Barack Obama, despite his Muslim education.
Accusing the umma (world Islamic population) of encouraging the hostility of the entire world, al-Sisi’s speech is so dramatic and essentially revolutionary it brings to mind Khrushchev’s famous speech exposing Stalin. Many have called for a reformation of Islam, but for the leader of the largest Arab nation to do so has world-changing implications.
I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!
That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema—Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it from a more enlightened perspective.I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands. [bolds mine]
Al-Sisi is certainly correct. The whole world has been waiting for a long time for the next move of these imams or for somebody, anybody that will modernize Islam as other religions have done.. Whether that will happen, of course, is another question, but what al-Sisi is saying here is in many ways more revolutionary than the “Arab Spring.” People ask, where are the “moderate Muslims”? Well, one of them may be the president of Egypt. The boys from Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, etc., etc., are probably not too happy about what al-Sisi said. Let’s hope he doesn’t suffer the fate of Anwar Sadat for his courage.
5) The Obama Economic Record is Even Worse than You Realize
Six years ago this month, America cast its lot toward a young, first-term U.S. Senator from Illinois to lead the greatest nation in the world. His mesmerizing words and bold promises drew folks in by the millions.
However, unless you're a bleeding heart liberal, you realize the social experiment of electing an unqualified, former professional antagonizer has been an economic disaster.
The quantitative evidence, and it abundant, is overwhelming and ever-growing.
Remember the fanfare of January 2009. Members of the media were fawning all over themselves at what they were witnessing, the first black President of the United States.
Change was coming. All families, not just the rich, would rise in wealth, but especially those with the lowest of incomes. African-Americans would see their lot improve, as would other minority groups. Grand and exciting changes were coming with the 44th President of the United States. Exhilaration filled the air.
Obama seemed the type of leader we needed to right the wrongs of the past and deliver all Americans into prosperity.
Now, six years later, the degree to which Barack Obama has failed, as seen in the data, is quite staggering.
Consider the wealth gap. According to a report from the Pew Research Center, in 2014 upper income households had almost seven times the wealth of middle class households. That is the largest gap between these respective groups in the three decades the Fed has collected such data. Yes, it's even higher than the "Evil 80s" under Reagan.
Uh, that wasn't supposed to happen!
Recall President Obama's campaign exchange with Joe the Plumber when he stated, "And I think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Obama also spoke of his desire to redistribute wealth in a 1998 speech when he said, "I actually believe in (wealth) redistribution."
Closing the wealth gap is a Utopian goal of liberals and Obama was no different. He campaigned on it.
Yet, lower and middle class Americans, groups with which Democrats so often claim allegiance, have fallen further down the economic ladder under President Obama.
Consider this staggering comparison: In 2007, the average household income in America was $55,627.
In 2014, that figure had slipped to $53,880 -- Americans earned less on average than they did seven years prior. So, what has happened is that the average American family has been earning less than it did when the great Recession began. All the while, over that same period prices of practically everything else we buy rose.
Let's look deeper into segments of wealth within the nation.
In 2013 (the latest available data), that figure had dropped to 3.2%. Bear with me on the math, because it is damning evidence of Obama's Utopian economic failure.
That reduction from 3.4% to 3.2% of total earnings means these folks have seen a 6.25% reduction in the slice of their total earnings pie over that period.
What about the highest earning quintile? Over that same period, their slice of the pie actually swelled from 49.7% in 2007 to 51.0% in 2013.
Those are official government numbers. That's the undeniable fact that liberals should know -- under your Messianic President, the rich literally got richer and the poor got poorer.
Even that bastion of objectivity, The New York Times, cited a National Employment Law Project study in an April article in which it was noted that a million jobs in middle-income industries were lost during the Great Recession. The article added that those million workers then often found themselves either unemployed or flipping burgers at a minimum wage job.
Wow, is that the American Dream that was being ballyhooed by so many when they cast their lot for the
Community Agitator from Chicago back in 2008?
I don't recall breathless anticipation of people having their homes foreclosed or moving from an assembly line at the factory to a food assembly line at the burger joint.
Yet, that's the reality.
Consider the economic scorecard for African-Americans under Obama?
It's Dismal.
Some Obama supporters will defend him by saying that the African-American unemployment rate has dropped from 12.7% when he took office to 11.1% as of November 2014, the latest reported month. At first glance that might appear impressive.
However, the reason that figure has dropped is because so many African-Americans have actually dropped out of the labor force.
In January 2009, there were 10,312,000 African-Americans not in the labor force. As of November 2014, the latest available data, that figure had swelled to 11,923,000. That represents more than a 15% increase in African-Americans who have exited the workforce.
Look at food stamps. The latest data indicate that some 46 million or one in seven Americans are on food stamps.
Practically any way you slice the data, Obama's economic and labor grades are woeful.
Yet, without a hint of shame, six months ago President Obama boasted, "I think you’d have to say that we’ve managed the economy pretty well."
Really?
It looks like the economic illusionist that is Obama is finally losing his touch...that or folks are finally starting to question him
A CNBC poll in October found that a mere 24% of Americans were confident in Obama's economic policies and goals.
As for the other 76% of Americans--they have seen through the smoke and mirrors and realize that indeed the Obama reign over the economy has resulted in nothing other than disappearing jobs and earnings.
Chad Stafko is a writer living in the Midwest. He can be reached at stafko@msn.com
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5)TOURISM STATISTICS 2014*
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About 3.3 million visitors to Israel arrived in Israel in 2014, 7% less than
the record year of 2013. The number of tourist entries (not including day
visitors) totaled about 2.9 million entries, a decrease of less than one
percent compared to 2013.
The year 2014 was characterized by steady increases in the months
January-June 2014. The accumulated increase of the first half of 2014 for
visitors stands at 8%; and for tourists (those staying more than one night)
was greater - 18%. This momentum was halted and reversed with the onset of
Operation Protective Edge in July 2014. Sharp decreases in incoming tourism
were recorded from July 2014 (about 30%), stabilizing to about 20% decrease
in the last months of 2014.
1. Tourism by mode of travel
Out of 3.3 million visitors, 2.5 million arrived by air (78%), a decrease of
2% compared to 2013. About 400,000 came through the land borders (12%), a 5%
increase compared to 2013. 240,000 entries (7%) were day visitors, a
decrease of 26%: of these 90,000 (3%) came on cruise ships, a 65% decrease
compared to 2013. The cruise ship sector was most affected by Operation
Protective Edge (even though the decrease was evident in the first half of
2014 as well.)
2. Tourism by Country of Origin (visitors, including day visitors and cruise
ships)
As in previous years, tourism from the USA continued to represent the
largest country of origin for incoming tourism to Israel, with 626,000
visitors arriving in 2014, (representing 19% of all incoming tourism), 1%
more than 2013. In second place is tourism from Russia with 567,000
visitors, a decrease. of 6% Tourism from France takes third place, with
about 301,000 visitors 5% less than 2013, followed by Germany (196,000; 23%
less than 2013) and the United Kingdom with 179,000 visitors, 18% less than
2013.
Other countries worthy of note: Italy with 122,000 visitors, 29% less than
2013; Ukraine with 132,000 visitors, no change on 2013; Poland, 79,000
visitors, 12% less than 2013; 66,000 visitors from Canada (a decrease of
7%); from the Netherlands 52,000 visitors, 8% less 2013.
3. Leading Countries of Origin (tourists, excluding day and cruise
visitors):
In first place, USA with 608,000 tourists, 2% more than last year. In second
place, Russia with 420,000, 4% more than last year. In third place, France
with 290,000, (no change on last year). In fourth place, UK and Germany
with 165,000 , Italy with 114,000, Ukraine with 110,000, Poland with
63,000, Canada with 62,000 and the Netherlands with 51,000.
4. Tourism to Israel: Characteristics**
- 56% of incoming tourism was Christian tourism (41% of which is
Catholic, 26% Protestant and 22% Russian Orthodox), 24% Jewish tourism, with
the remaining of other religious denominations or non affiliated.
- 58% of tourists were first time visitors, and 42% returning visitors.
- 21% defined their visit as part of a pilgrimage, 26% as tour and
travel, 11% as vacation and leisure. Overall, 58% defined their visit for
tourism purposes, 23% visited friends or relatives and 11% came for business
or to attend conventions.
- 27% came as part of an organized tour, 10% on a package deal, and 63%
came as FITs (frequent individual tourists).
- 64% of tourists stayed in hotels, 22% stayed with friends or relatives
and 5% stayed in youth hostels, 1% stayed in religious hostels. 6% stayed in
rented or owned apartments.
5. Sites/Cities Visited*
Jerusalem is the city most visited by incoming tourists in Israel, (82% of
all tourists). Tel Aviv-Jaffa holds second place with 67% of all tourists
having visited and in third place, the Dead Sea area with 54%. Tiberias and
the Sea of Galilee holds fourth place with 38% of all tourists followed by
the Galilee area with 34%.
The most visited sites in 2014 include the Western Wall (74%), the Jewish
Quarter in Jerusalem (68%), the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (59%) and the
Via Dolorosa (53%) and the Mount of Olives (52%).
6. Tourist Satisfaction
The satisfaction level of tourists visiting Israel in 2013 was very good to
excellent (4.3 out of 5 – excellent). Services that received a high rating
included: archeological sites (4.5); tour guides and organized tours (4.4);
personal security (4.3). Among those services which did not rate so highly:
public bathrooms (3.5), taxis (3.4), and value for money (3.1).
7. Hotels
During 2014, 360 hotels operated in Israel with a total of about 49,610
rooms. 75 hotels with 9,800 rooms operated in Jerusalem, 50 hotels with
11,000 rooms in Eilat, 57 hotels with 7,100 rooms in the Tel Aviv area, 15
hotels in the Dead Sea area with over 4,000 rooms and 49 hotels with 6,300
rooms in the Tiberias and Sea of Galilee area.
22 million bed nights were registered in these hotels through 2014, a slight
decrease (1%) on 2013. About 41% of these were from incoming tourists (9.2
million bed nights, 5% less than 2013). Since 2008, there has been a trend
in tourist bed nights, away from tourist hotels into other accommodation
(youth hostels, Christian hostels and privately-owned/rented apartments).
About 13 million bed nights (59% of the total) were from Israelis, an
increase of 1% on 2013.
8. Domestic Tourism
About 16.7 million domestic overnight stays were registered in 2014 in all
the various types of accommodation, 2% more than last year (16.5 million).
There was an increase of 3% in hotel stays (13.7 million overnight stays).
Rural tourism registered 1.9 million bed nights (no change on 2013), 770,000
Israeli bed nights in youth hostels (4% increase), 330,000 bed nights in
field schools (almost no change on 2013 - 327,000).
It should be noted that there was an 8% increase in the numbers of Israelis
traveling overseas in 2013 (4.8 million) as compared to 2013. Of those
Israelis, 4.6 million traveled overseas by air (10% increase).
9. Tourism's contribution to the Israeli economy
Revenue from incoming tourism in 2014 (including the income of the Israeli
aviation companies from inbound tourism) totals about $5 billion or NIS 19
billion (a decrease of 2% - there was an increase in revenue in the first
half of 2014, and a decrease in the second half, due to the increase in the
dollar rate and the decrease in shekels was relatively small). Revenue from
domestic tourism in 2014 totals about NIS 12 billion (2% more than in 2013),
with another NIS 10 billion from outgoing tourism, a slight increase on last
year. Total revenue from tourism in 2014 is estimated at about NIS 41
billion, a slight decrease on 2013.
The number of employees in the Israeli economy as a result of tourism
activities totals about 110,000 in 2014, approximately one third of whom are
employed in hotels. The total number of employees in the tourism industry
(direct and indirect) stands at about 200,000, 6% of all employees in
Israel.
* Estimates based on statistics for January-November 2014 inclusive
** Based on the Inbound Tourism Survey, January-June 2014
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