Israel

After the United States, which set November 8 as the date for lifting its main travel restrictions, Israel has now opted to reopen its doors to the rest of the world - with the exception of countries classified in the "red" zone. This is particularly welcome news for La Compagnie, since the French 100% business class carrier was preparing the launch of its...

"On Monday the 12th, I shall myself go to the pub, and raise, cautiously but irrevocably, a pint of beer to my lips." The British will no doubt have listened carefully to this announcement from Boris Johnson's press conference on 5 April. The British Prime Minister officially confirmed this step forward...

The publication in the Israeli media of travellers evading a self-quarantine has set off a firestorm in Israel. The measure is compulsory for all passengers returning from a trip. The health authorities put pressure on the government to close down air transport for at least two weeks. Satisfaction...

Luxury and beautiful resorts, of course, but also design and lifestyle: a look at the new hotels due to open this year in the Middle and Near East. Dubai will see a new wave of hotel openings in the run-up to the World Expo, which has been postponed from 2020 to 2021 because of the pandemic. It will...

Israeli carrier El Al has been offering a direct service between Nice and Tel Aviv since Thursday 4 April. These services are offered three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. These flights, which last almost four hours, are operated by Boeing 737-900s with 172 seats, 16 of which are in...

Hotels The Ritz-Carlton Herzliya Herzliya established itself on the luxury hotel map with the opening of this 115-room Ritz-Carlton, including 82 suites, at the end of 2013. The hotel's plus points: views over the marina and the sea, the spa, the reception rooms bathed in light, the Herbert Samuel restaurant, the astonishing facilities...

If you have... One or two hours Go to the marina and the beach, where you can watch the boats, the birds, the joggers and the matkot (Israeli beach-ball) players. If you want to take your marine experience a step further, several clubs offer diving trips in the...

IDENTITY CARD Formalities: passport valid for up to six months after the date of arrival. Currency: the shekel (ILS). 1 euro = 3.89 ILS (March 2017). Area code: +972. Time difference: +1h. GETTING THERE EL AL offers 17 flights a week between Paris CDG and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion, most of them operated by Boeing B737 two-class aircraft and some by B767-300 equipped with...

To travel to Tel Aviv on business without making a diversion via Jerusalem would almost be heresy. In the strictest sense of the word. Jerusalem, the cradle of the three monotheistic religions, is an eminently sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Behind the ramparts celebrated by Chateaubriand in...

Israel is a young nation, and tourism still has enormous potential for expansion What is the share of tourism in the Israeli economy? Amir Halevi - Israel is a young nation, and tourism still has enormous potential for expansion. Recently, its share was around 3 % to 4 % of GDP,...

It's hard to name my favourite restaurants in Tel Aviv, as there are so many... But I'd have to say I have a soft spot for Oasis, Rima Olivera's restaurant. This energetic woman, originally from California, moved to Israel about fifteen years ago. She's a real icon for me. All her cooking is based...

Small ochre stone houses line up wisely in a garden shaded by date palms, and all around, tall skyscrapers form a modern belt around this urban oasis: this is the district of Sarona, where a colony of German Protestants, the Société des...

Making something new out of something old, the hotel industry in Tel Aviv is very good at it, but it's fairly recent. So in 2014, after two years of renovations, a nearly 200-year-old building in the heart of the Jaffa market opened its doors as the Market House Hotel. The only hotel for the moment in...

"Tel Aviv is a great place to do business at the moment," says Daniel Rouach, President of the France-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Why such a dynamic? Because in just a few years the country has become a veritable cluster of innovative start-ups. Ten years ago, young entrepreneurs began to set up in...

Adi Assif-Gutman [caption id="attachment_59065" align="aligncenter" width="700"] © Ludovic MAISANT[/caption] 36, architect - www.ygaa.net In summer, we sometimes come to the office in flip-flops. No one's surprised. After studying architecture at the Bezalel School of Fine Arts, I continued my studies at Harvard. When I returned from the United States in 2010, I joined the firm...

Tel Aviv has made innovation its priority. Business districts like Herzliya flourish all around Israel's economic capital, providing high-tech testing grounds for a host of ingenious start-ups. So where are we? Just ten kilometres north of Tel Aviv, between the waters of the Mediterranean and the asphalt of...

"A mini-Los Angeles": that's how The Economist magazine sums up the "White City", even if the 3.1 million inhabitants of the Tel Aviv conurbation (the Gush Dan) will struggle to compete with the 18 million of its Californian "big sister". However, there is no shortage of points of comparison between the two cities, both of which are over-active metropolises bathed in...