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The Negev wants to say goodbye to the State of Israel, and to declare an independent tourism federation - Walla! Tourism

2020-10-25T09:57:14.715Z


In the Negev and the Arava, which make up 60% of Israel's territory, they decided not to wait for the government to establish an "independent tourism federation" to be announced today, and even appealed to the world tourism federation to exclude them.


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The Negev wants to say goodbye to the State of Israel, and to declare an independent tourism federation

In the Negev and the Arava, which make up 60% of Israel's territory, they decided not to wait for the government to establish an "independent tourism federation" to be announced today, and even appealed to the World Tourism Federation to exclude them from the State of Israel.

"There will be a border station at the entrance to the Negev where corona tests will be presented," says one of the protest leaders

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Ziv Reinstein

Sunday, 25 October 2020, 10:42

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In the Negev and Arava region, they decided not to wait for the government to ease and open tourism, and declared the "Independent Tourism Federation in the Negev", which calls on the Israeli government to reopen tourism in the Negev, which is the largest and least crowded area in Israel. Or other tourism experiences.



The "Federation" is an independent group of tourists in the Negev region, numbering about 120 people, who are unwilling to make the government decisions that are delayed and the economic damage to businesses that has become unbearable.

As a result, the group decided not to wait, and to officially declare the desert area as the "Independent Tourism Federation of the Negev," which will soon launch its new flag.

In addition, the organizers of the protest created a number of logos, including "the safest - in the open Negev" and "the golden sign - to wipe now".



The ceremonial announcement ceremony will be held today (Sunday) at 3:30 PM at the Tomb of Paula and David Ben-Gurion at Sde Boker College, in the presence of residents and families of the area.

According to the Tourist Protest Action Team: "Since our area is plentiful in vast areas and spaces that make up about 60 percent of Israel's territory, it is factually the largest and safest area in the State of Israel."

Why at Ben Gurion Airport, yes, and not in the desert? A poster of the Independent Tourism Federation in the Negev

"The safest - in the open Negev" - there is a situation that this is true.

Ramon Crater (Photo: Dafna Tal)

"The Negev is the medicine"

Effi Perry from Mitzpe Ramon, a guide and one of the leaders of the protest, told Walla!

Tourism, "The protest has grown among tourists and most of them, including rural tourism in the country. God forbid, and if a closure is made and it is forbidden to guide, the Negev should be opened, and the Negev is the medicine, you can come here all year round and breathe the air of the desert. "

According to Perry, last summer many people discovered the Negev and "said it was like abroad here - wonderful weather, interesting activities and again - huge spaces." "More than one hundred thousand people who were here last summer, got excited and recorded zero cases," he said. "We even have a brand called 'Individual Farms' that everyone is familiar with, so what's more appropriate than that for the current period?



" "I said before the third election that if there are more elections, then I will declare intra-state elections, because the country is only bothering me," he says. C, but Jeeps in the Negev cannot sleep in a desert khan or B&B.

"It is disproportionate, untrue and illogical," he adds.



So what will you do within the federation?


"This is an initiative of the tourists, I am not in the business of breaking the law, but this organization is correct and timely, and it actually says that it is unlikely that there will be no tourism in the open space. This is a media, explanatory, conscious move and I hope the move together with the tourists It will not happen and people will lose their livelihoods, I do not know what will happen and what they plan, but I as an authority strongly support them. I do not think desert tourism is dangerous, and last weekend dozens maybe hundreds of travelers came to the Negev, and I saw convoys of jeeps.

The public owes the desert, and the fact that people sleep in B & Bs does not cause an increase in morbidity.

And more in a single B&B?

The establishment of the Federation is a welcome initiative that comes from the blood of the people.

If it has an expression on the ground?

I do not know at the moment, we are in the business of exerting pressure. "



Dr. Haim Berger, an ecologist and tour guide for the Sde Boker seminary, says that the organizers even sent letters to the World Tourism Federation.

"We want separation from the State of Israel," he says, "for the above reasons and we demand a special regulation for the Negev, a kind of special gold mark." He said the federation intends to set up a border station at the entrance to the council, on Route 40. "A protest that will invite people to present corona tests, like at Ben Gurion Airport, so that any visitor to the clean area of ​​Corona will exclude us from the general quarantine. We are built only on tourism, we have no alternatives, and tourism is the main breadwinner in the area. He concludes.

First of all it is the small businesses that are harmed.

Effie Perry, tour guide in the Negev (Photo: PR)

"How is it possible that Israel will give up such an important income?"

Efrat Kedem Silvert, one of the leaders of the protest (Photo: Nadav Silvert)

Revenue from tourism of NIS 400 million in 2019

Revenue from tourism in the Negev region (Mitzpe Ramon, Yeruham and Ramat Hanegev) last year amounted to almost NIS 400 million, in an area where only five percent of Israelis live. Ramat Negev tourism director, Dr. Dawn Sheila, said last summer (July and August) visited the Negev highlands about 150 thousand people and none of them stuck to its origin.



"How is it possible that Israel want to give up such an important economic income, which is a source of employment To thousands of Negev residents, who also have social solidarity that encourages domestic tourism? ", Says Efrat Kedem Silver, who guides stars in the Negev and other places in the region. It is known as an international starlight reserve, jeep tours, tours and walks on hiking trails, vineyards and wine wineries, and accommodation in khans and B & Bs. "



"The meaning of establishing the federation is to demand from the state not to treat the vast space on it like the other areas in the country, even for the reason that it is the largest area in the State of Israel," say protest leaders and call for awarding a gold medal to the region To Greece.

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