Experience Israel - With Famed Archaeologist Eli Shukron

14 | DAY TOUR

pensioners, etc. You can expect to see a cross-section of Israeli society as you sit in the middle of duty free.

The Israeli vacation starts here in duty free.

Duty Free Once you have passed through security and border control you will enter the last important Israeli institution: duty free. Israelis love duty free. People are often late for their flights because they were too busy shopping. Vacation and shopping are synonymous for Israelis and that vacation starts in duty free. In 1989 Israelis invented a duty free service called Arrival Collection Service which means that you buy before you fly but don’t take the goods with you and instead pick them up when you come back. This led to duty free shops also selling big products and many Israelis now buy TVs, washing machines and refrigerators as well as the usual alcohol, cosmetics and cigarettes. This means that Israeli duty free holds a few world records (one of the biggest duty free shops in the world, the highest expenditure per traveler) and has become a national consumerist phenomenon. (I honestly don’t know if this is a good thing.)