126.5 thousand visitors entered Israel in November 2025, most of them tourists. The Central Bureau of Statistics data shows improvement in recent months. Since the beginning of the year, 1.2 million visitors have arrived in Israel, a significant increase compared with 2024.
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The Central Bureau of Statistics published the inbound tourism data for November 2025. The data shows that during this month there were 126.5 thousand visitor entries, a sharp increase compared with November 2024, when only 62.1 thousand entries were recorded.
Of all visitors in November, 122.5 thousand were tourists who stayed in Israel for more than one day, and 4 thousand were day visitors.
According to data for January through November 2025, 1.2 million visitors arrived in Israel, compared with 897.2 thousand in the same period in 2024 and 3.19 million in 2023. Although this is lower than the year before the war, it reflects a continued recovery trend.
The leading countries and the impact of the war
The United States led the list of countries sending visitors to Israel, accounting for 33.4 percent of all entries. After the United States came France with 13.2 percent, the United Kingdom with 7.9 percent, and Russia with 5.6 percent.
The Central Bureau of Statistics notes that the numbers still reflect the impact of the war that began in November 2023, along with long term effects of the COVID pandemic in previous years. This is especially relevant in the context of seasonally adjusted time series, which were recalibrated due to major changes in passenger movement during March 2020, March 2021, March 2022, and October 2023.
Seasonally adjusted data for tourist entries by air shows that in the months September through November 2025, the monthly average was 114.8 thousand entries. This is a significant rise compared with the average of 78.2 thousand entries recorded in June through August. Trend analysis indicates a monthly increase of 2.6 percent in recent months, compared with an increase of 2.3 percent in the three months prior.
