ISRAEL TOURISM
September 2023
A SAUDI TRAVEL COMPANY IS TRYING TO ENTICE TOURISTS VISITING ISRAEL TO ALSO VISIT SAUDI ARABIA
A Saudi travel company, called Golden Galactica, has begun enticing marketing and travel agencies bringing tourist to Israel, usually coming from countries in North America, Europe and the Far East, to add Saudi Arabia to their visit, as part of tourism packages to destinations that appear in the Bible. The Head of Operations of Arabia, as part of biblical road tours The Saudi Golden Galactica company is about to offer tours to Saudi
the company that markets the project, Mohamed Badr, recently visited Israel to get to know the main tourist attractions in Israel related to major events in the Bible, and based on this he built a tourist itinerary for foreign visitors, and found out that tourist could continue their tour by flying to and then to Saudi Arabia via neighbor countries. The Golden Galactica company defines the tour as “We Take You to a Journey You’ve Never Imagined”, and includes a number of sites in Saudi Arabia, for example the mountain of Jabal al- Lawaz, where it is estimated that the biblical Mount Sinai is located. Historians and
biblical scholars are trying to decipher where the biblical Mount Sinai is, the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. Quite a few suggestions have come up, such as Mount Kharkum in the Negev in Israel, or Jabal Musa in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Another hypothesis, which has already come up in the past and was rejected by many experts, claimed that the Israelites crossed Sinai and the Red Sea and continued from there to Jabal al-Lawaz, which is in the northwest Saudi Arabia, near the Jordanian border. Jabal al-Lawz was previously proposed as a candidate to be
the biblical Mount Sinai, but this claim was criticized by other historians, who pointed out that any identification of Mount Sinai in ancient (Saudi Arabia) does not correspond at all to what is written in the Bible. Now, new findings show that the theory must be re-examined - because there is a situation where it is precisely the correct one. Golden Galactica is one of the leading Travel & Tourism Enterprises in Saudi Arabia with 40 years of consistency and experience in the provision of both value and quality added services, with offices in Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Russia.
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