As an Advantage Travel Agent,
personalised by owner managed office with
all qualified and experienced staff.
We operate the latest computerised
reservations and have keen airfares,
holidays, hotels, self-drive cars and cruises.
We offer prompt confirmations and tickets.
Our services include groups and incentive
travel.
Israel
Religion, politics, passion, history, social
injustice and a standing army are not the ideal ingredients
for a 'get away from it all' holiday. But these are the things
that draw thousands of visitors (and thousands of emigrants)
to Israel every year.
This is 'where it happened', a land that grips at the imagination
of Christian, Jew and Muslim alike. It's the intangibles of
Israel - standing in the footsteps of gods, breathing the
air of the Messiah - that bring people here, and it's that
very intangibility that leaves so many disappointed.
Anyone expecting profound moments of epiphany brought on
by immersion in the refined air of the holy land is in for
a shock. Israel is a bustling, smelly, noisy, modern country,
just as capable of squeezing a tacky tourist buck out of the
sacred as any US bible-belt town.
If you want to understand Israel, take time to visit the
new, cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv, dive the Red Sea at Eilat,
explore some of the country's thriving national parks and
float for hours in the salty stillness of the Dead Sea. Look
beyond the larger-than-life figures of the past and have a
chat to your bus driver or hostel owner.
Area: 21,056 sq km
Population: 6.2 million
Capital City: Jerusalem (contested); pop 623,000
People: Jewish (80%), Muslim (15%), Christians (1.7%) and
Druze (1.3%)
Languge: Hebrew, Arabic, English
Religion: Jewish, Muslim, Christian
Government: Republic
Head of State: President Moshe Katzav
Head of Government: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
GDP: US$103 billion
GDP per capita: US$16,291
Annual Growth: 5%
Inflation: 4.5%
Major Industries: Metal, defence, machinery, technology, diamonds,
chemicals
Major Trading Partners: USA, UK, Belgium/Luxembourg, Germany
Windsor & Neate Travel, ABTA/IATA
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airline tickets or an ATOL receipt confirming which ATOL travel firm you are booked with. ATOL is a Travel Protection scheme operated
by the Civil Aviation Authority that extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the UK.
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