7 facts that every traveler should know about Israel

Israel is a country located in the Asian region of the Middle East. Each year this destination receives a large number of visitors. In 2018, 4 million tourists traveled to this destination. Learn more about the Holy Land in this article.

 

These are the 7 facts that every traveler should know about Israel:

1. Israel revived a dead language, making Hebrew one of its two official languages.

The other is Arabic. However, English is very well understood and it is estimated that more than 15% of the population speaks Spanish. Hebrew and Arabic are read from right to left.

The signs are in Hebrew, Arabic and English.

 

2. Most international airlines have flights to Israel.

Since, it has more than 85 airlines. You can find direct flights from the main cities of Europe, New York or Toronto to Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV), which is just 16 kilometers from the center of Tel Aviv.

36,500 of the visitors in 2018 were Mexican.

 

3. 60% of Israel is desert.

It is for this reason that this country has long, hot and dry summers (from April to October) and generally mild winters (from November to March). Conditions vary considerably from one region to another, with wet summers and mild winters on the coast, dry summers and moderately cold winters in mountainous areas, hot and dry summers and pleasant winters in the Jordan Valley and semi-desert conditions all year round in the Negev.

 

4. Israel has a large number of archeological sites.

2,000 of them are located in Jerusalem.

 

5. Tel Aviv Tel Aviv means

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, often referred to as “the city that never sleeps,” was the first modern Jewish city to rise in Israel, and around it revolves the economic and cultural life of the country .

 

6. The currency of Israel is the New Israeli Shekel (NIS) or simply shekel (pluralized as shekalim in Hebrew or shekels in Spanish).

Each shekel is divided into 100 agorot (agora singular). Banknotes are issued with denominations of 20, 50, 100 and 200 shekels, while the coins are 10, 5 and 1 shekel and 50 and 10 agorot.

 

7. Hundreds of letters

Hundreds of letters directed to God arrive from several countries to Jerusalem, where they are placed between the cracks of the Wailing Wall.