Pilgrim

Tourism rebounds with 1.3 million visitors in 2025, led by US, France and UK

The leading countries of origin were the United States with 400,000 tourists, followed by France with 159,000 and the United Kingdom with 95,000.

 TRAVELERS COME and go at Ben-Gurion Airport last month
Christmas in Nazareth

Christmas returns to Nazareth, marking a gradual revival of the city's Christian tourism

 Israel Police, Border Police, and IDF reinforce security in Hebron amid Passover pilgrimages to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, April 2025.

Ben-Gvir visits Hebron amid increased security deployment at holy site

 Elder Israeli Druze men attend the celebrations of Nabi Shuayb Druze holiday at the tomb of Nabi Shuayb (meaning "the Prophet Jethro"), the site in the destroyed village of Hittin not far from Tiberias, where the tomb of the Islamic prophet Shu'ayb (Biblical Jethro) is believed to be located

One hundred Druze sheikhs to be allowed into Israel from Syria to visit shrine - report


'We are Israel, all good people are welcome here.'

What lingers in the mind most is the act of kindness of one resident of Jerusalem in the middle of a crowded market, with a smile as big as the Sea of Galilee.

Jerusalem Temple Mount

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Pope Francis at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem during his May 2014 visit to Israel

Haj Scams: What some Muslims will do to get to Mecca

Fake passports and drug smuggling are just two ways pilgrims attempt to carry out the Haj.

A Muslim pilgrim prays atop Mount Thor in the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage

Saudi Kingdom to host 1,000 Palestinian Haj pilgrims

Most of the Palestinians are relatives of “those who have been martyred,” said the report.

Muslim pilgrims pray around the holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca

Gazans launch campaign calling on Saudi Arabia to help them make pilgrimage to Mecca

The campaign, spread on Twitter under the hashtag "Gaza misses Umrah (the Mecca pilgrimage)," was launched in light of the approaching visit of Saudi Arabia's King Salman to Cairo later this week.

Kaaba in Mecca

Philippine rebels kill most wanted Islamist militant in country

The rebels are waiting for government to set up a new Muslim autonomous government in the south.

Abdul Basit Usman

March of the Living to focus on post-survivor period

2015 marks the twenty seventh March of the Living, in which students from more than forty five countries around the globe make a pilgrimage to some of Europe's most infamous concentration camps.

A large tent errected ahead of an anniversary ceremony is seen at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau

Pilgrims’ progress

Two institutions, the unusual French baron who built them, and the extraordinary people running them.

The view from the Notre Dame de Jerusalem Center rooftop.

Terra Incognita: The neo-pilgrim of Palestine

The modern pilgrim to the Middle East carves out a pilgrimage trail – in order to present the story of Palestinians to the western world.

Palestinian protest at Kalandiya checkpoint 370

Spring time in Ein Karem by the spring

The charming village is an orchard studded with historic churches, picturesque houses, quaint restaurants.

Art gallery in Ein Kerem