The Ministry of Tourism () is the

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office responsible for

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

. The office was created in 1964, with

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being the first minister, but was appended to the Trade and Industry Ministry between 1977 and 1981. The logo for the Ministry depicts the Biblical

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carrying fruit back from touring the Holy Land.

List of ministers

The Minister of Tourism (, ''Sar HaTayarut'') is the political head of the ministry and a member of the Israeli cabinet.

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is the only

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to have held the position while serving as the Prime Minister.

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, Minister of Tourism from 1996 to 1999, served as

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from 2000 to 2007. On one occasion there was a Deputy Minister of Tourism.

Deputy Ministers

References

External links

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Minister of Tourism, Yoel Razvozov
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Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

*Ministry of Tourism

Tourism in Israel

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Organizations supporting immigration and travel to Israel

List of ministers

Deputy Ministers

See also

References

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