Israel announces tourism rebuilding plan 3 weeks ago Israel’s tourism was gravely impaired by the COVID-19 disaster Plan includes an international advertising campaign to encourage foreign tourists to visit Israel International flights to the southern Red Sea resort city of Eilat to resume Israeli Ministry of Tourism announced that it has launched a program to rebuild and re-start Israel’s battered tourism industry, which was gravely impaired by the COVID-19 disaster. According to Israeli tourism officials, the plan includes an international advertising campaign to encourage foreign tourists to visit Israel, focusing on New York and London, as well as the United Arab Emirates, with which Israel signed an historic normalization agreement in September 2020.