Air Traffic Rose at Tel Aviv Airport in 2023 Despite Recent Plunge


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The numbers show how well travel has recovered post-pandemic in some parts of the world.

Air travel to and from Israel plunged in the last three months of 2023 amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, but the number of passengers traveling through Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv still rose 10% in 2023. The number of international travelers reached 21.1 million in 2023, up from 19.2 million in 2022, the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) said in a report on Sunday. Over the first 9 months of the year, before the Oct. 7 attacks by Palestinian I