There was a 30-40 percent decline in the number of Israelis travelling abroad this year, the government’s Central Bureau of Statistics announced. It said that in the three months — July, August and September — the number was 40 percent less than in the same months last year. In the first nine months of this year, nearly 400,000 Israelis left the country for visits abroad, about a third less than in the same period a year ago. Much of the decline in outgoing tourism was due to the heavy travel tax and tax on tickets imposed by the Finance Ministry on travellers.
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