Indian tourists take on Israel
INDIA – Rejina Dsoza didn't know she is part of a trend. She enjoyed her visit to Israel last summer so much that she already convinced almost a dozen of her friends, relatives and neighbors to make the Jewish State their next holiday destination.
"I don't have the words to describe it," said Dsoza, a restaurant owner from Goa and mother-of-three, "But in Israel I felt as though my soul is happy. And it's so clean! I've never seen such a clean place in my life."
Dsoza arrived to Israel with a group of Catholic pilgrims who came to visit the Christian holy sites. "But my Hindu neighbors visited before me," she said, "and they don't even believe in Jesus."
Some 40,000 Indian tourists visited Israel in 2011 - double the number of visitors in 2009. Interestingly, almost the same number of Israelis visited India last year.
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