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The Ministry of Tourism presents: Embarrassing leaks on the official Facebook page

A pool of water in the Galilee in the Golan Heights, an embarrassing mistake for King Herod and also a delusional fact that Israel is a world power museum.

A tour of the Ministry of Tourism's Facebook reveals embarrassing mistakes by the institution entrusted with driving incoming tourism into Israel.

Ministry of Tourism: "Information taken from reliable sources"

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Eyal Shapira

Thursday, 21 October 2021, 11:47 Updated: 12:01

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On Monday, October 19, a beautiful post appeared on the invested and colorful Facebook page of the Ministry of Tourism with a photo of Masada at sunrise. The photo was accompanied by the following text: "We love sunrises so much that we just decided to climb up the cliff of Masada and feel like King Herods in the days of the Great Revolt. Feel free to join us (just be careful, huh?)".

Well, even if we ignore the spelling mistakes in the name of King Herod, we have a real problem here in knowing the history of the people of Israel. Or to put it simply: there is no way Herod felt anything at all during the Great Revolt, for the simple reason that

So okay, if this post had been written by an occasional travel blogger, we could have lived With this mistake, but on the official page of the Ministry of Tourism? The institution entrusted with motivating incoming tourism to Israel and encouraging domestic tourism?

Especially in Israel, a country whose history is an integral part of it and the world of tourist content it offers its travelers, such mistakes cannot occur.

Especially in light of the fact that the Ministry of Tourism has tens of thousands of followers on Facebook and other social media.

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Herod had been dead for 70 years when the Great Revolt began.

The post of the Ministry of Tourism (Photo: Screenshot, Screenshot)

The pool that was not in Nahal Kaziv

Okay, maybe we'm exaggerating a bit and someone stumbled once. But no - because

. This time, a beautiful pool of water was seen in it, with the caption: "This place is not just called a pool of paradise. It is the largest pool in Nahal Kziv pools. It is surrounded by large rocks, trees and cliffs, and at its end the water flows in a series of figs Pastoral and particularly mesmerizing beauty. "

The description does arouse desire and travel, but where exactly?

Because the pool in the picture is not located at all in Nahal Kaziv in the Western Galilee, but far away - in the heart of the Golan Heights.

How do we know?

Also because we know Nahal Kaziv well, and also because in the post itself there is a link to the Instagram account of the photo photographer.

In describing the photo, the photographer says that the pool is located near the settlement of Aniam in the Golan Heights.

Where is it and where is Kziv?

Is it not a pity for all the people of Israel to flock en masse to the Kaziv River only to find that this pool does not exist in it?

A pool in Nahal Kaziv?

Try more in the direction of the Golan (Photo: screenshot, screenshot)

Museum power?

Far from it

Okay, now we're really lit up.

We rolled back a bit, and here we got another example. No less embarrassing. Earlier this year, on March 22, the following post surfaced: "Here's something you probably did not know: With over 200 museums, Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world!"

Walla? 200? No less and no more? Because the national portal "Museums in Israel" (which is an official government website) has a long list of all the museums recognized by the state: 63 in number only. So where did 137 more museums go? Also on the website of the Museums Association we found only about 70 registered museums.

Well, let's not be petty and flow with the number 200, and include in it also small museums that are not recognized by the state.

But what about the statement that "Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world"?

Just for example, in the United States there are about 33,000 museums, the population of the country is about 330 million.

That is, a museum for every 10,000 people.

In contrast, Israel has almost 10 million inhabitants and 200 museums (at best).

That is, a museum for every 50,000 people.

That is, we are far behind the United States and other countries in the world, such as Germany, Japan and more.

Or in simple words: the Ministry of Tourism - you have a problem.

Israel a museum powerhouse?

So this is it, no (Photo: screenshot, screenshot)

Ministry of Tourism: "Information passed tests and approvals"

Ministry of Tourism response:

"Thank you for drawing our attention. We upload dozens of different posts on the ministry's social pages every day, in dozens of pages, in a variety of languages ​​and do our best to convey interesting, reliable, relevant and positive discourse to encourage domestic and incoming tourism, especially during this challenging period. .The information is always taken from reliable sources, and after having been tested and approved by various bodies and bodies.

"For example, the information about the museums is taken from the following link. We make every effort to be precise, but it turns out that mistakes also happen, which are corrected as soon as they are discovered. We will also be happy in the future to immediately correct such mistakes would have occurred. We call on surfers to follow the various pages of the office and enjoy quality content and of course - go for a walk and vacation in our beautiful Israel, thus also supporting businesses, tourists, guides, attractions and tourism bodies that are important to the industry during this period. We will continue to make sure that the information we publish daily,Based and reliable and reduce errors to a minimum. "

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