Anonymous wrote:Petra is in Jordan.

Yes and you can visit it on a day trip from Israel as people do.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

I opened it to respond because I've lived there and spent a lot of time there for work. I'm not jewish though, so I won't give you any advice.

Feel free to respond, if you are positive about the country (as the question stated you don’t have to be Jewish just supportive).

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Anonymous wrote:Petra is in Jordan.

...and near the SE part of Israel. This can not be a real post.

What does being in SE Israel have to do with anything? That is not near Gaza. It’s very common to combine an Israeli trip with Petra.

Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Dead Sea and Petra are far from the conflict now but it’s still too soon to know for spring. I would only book if everything is fully refundable.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

I opened it to respond because I've lived there and spent a lot of time there for work. I'm not jewish though, so I won't give you any advice.

“…and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally.”
You didn’t even bother to read the whole post. NP.

OP, I would not make non-refundable plans to go in the spring.

The post is off-putting. You don't need to be a supporter of Israeli politics or Jewish to answer a travel question.

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You don’t need to be Jewish or a supporter of Israeli politics to hope for peace.

-a Jewish person who is highly critical of Israeli politics

NP. I think OP was just trying to preemptively ward off attacks for their plans to visit Israel and prevent a political discussion. I think they wanted to get views from people who do or would visit Israel and not people who just want to troll them.

Anyway, I would not plan to visit Israel in spring 2024. I'd reevaluate when the situation becomes more stable.

Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

No. Give it a year and pencil in, ever so lightly, March-June time-frame for 2025, depending on how things go.

Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

How about Jews unfamiliar and unsupportive of Israel?

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Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

I opened it to respond because I've lived there and spent a lot of time there for work. I'm not jewish though, so I won't give you any advice.

“…and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally.”
You didn’t even bother to read the whole post. NP.

OP, I would not make non-refundable plans to go in the spring.

The post is off-putting. You don't need to be a supporter of Israeli politics or Jewish to answer a travel question.

+1
You don’t need to be Jewish or a supporter of Israeli politics to hope for peace.

-a Jewish person who is highly critical of Israeli politics

Anonymous wrote:Petra is in Jordan.

...and near the SE part of Israel. This can not be a real post.

Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

Nope. We cancelled our Christmas trip to Israel, I also think next Christmas is a wish list trip, and don't think it'll be safe by then

I have flights booked for April (booked before the war), and they are changeable, so I will see how it goes nearer the time. If I hadn’t already booked, I wouldn’t be booking now until it becomes clearer what the situation will be like. I have been there before during intifadas but this is obviously different.

I hope to go in summer 2025 but I am still waiting to see what is going to happen.

I wouldn’t bank on this spring personally. I had to cancel my honeymoon to Israel in August 2006.

You never know at any time tho.

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Anonymous wrote:This question is just for Jews and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally. Don’t reply if you don’t fit that description please.

Would you travel to northern Israel in Spring 2024? March-June timeframe. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Masada/Dead Sea, maybe Petra.

I opened it to respond because I've lived there and spent a lot of time there for work. I'm not jewish though, so I won't give you any advice.

“…and people who are familiar with and support Israel generally.”
You didn’t even bother to read the whole post. NP.

OP, I would not make non-refundable plans to go in the spring.

The post is off-putting. You don't need to be a supporter of Israeli politics or Jewish to answer a travel question.

Also, only an idiot would even ask this question. You can't even fly there on most airlines currently. What does the OP think is going to change in a few months?

I know people who have been going there regularly since Oct. 7 to visit and others who are planning to go in December (entirely separate from the flights that were bringing reservists back). El Al has flights, even if other carriers don't, so it's entirely possible to get there. Separate question from whether it's a good idea, but the flight logistics aren't as bad as you're suggesting.

It's hard to imagine northern Israel feeling particularly safe in the spring — they've evacuated tens of thousands of people who live in towns near the Lebanon border, and there's constant rocket and artillery exchanges with Hezbollah there.

Then again, most of the places you mentioned aren't really in the north — Tel Aviv is the most northern spot on the list. Tel Aviv is still taking occasional rocket fire, so I don't know if I'd go there at the moment if it was a trip I could just do later.

One issue that might complicate your plans is that there are over 100,000 people who have been moved from near either Gaza or the north who are currently living in hotels all over the place (including near the Dead Sea). So the hotel/lodging situation may be a bit of a mess; on the one hand, demand for normal tourism is probably low, but on the other hand, a lot of hotel rooms that usually house tourists are housing people from the rest of the country.

Too soon to know, but I wouldn’t plan for this spring. Perhaps spring 2025 but we won’t know that either for a while.

I had business travel plans for that timeframe and our Israeli partners have advised us to put it on hold.