{"id":644351,"date":"2026-10-12T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644351\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:32:08","slug":"israel-and-albania-sign-aviation-agreement-as-israeli-tourism-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644351\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel And Albania Sign Aviation Agreement As Israeli Tourism Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar and Albania\u2019s Infrastructure and Energy Minister, Eneida K\u00ebrcaku, signed an advanced aviation cooperation agreement in Tirana on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The agreement is expected to boost Israeli tourism to Albania and allow the Albanian government to directly contract Israeli companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Tourism to Albania has grown exponentially in the past few years, rising from 7,000 in 2023 to over 100,000 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">During the same visit, Sa&#8217;ar met with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, calling him a &#8220;steadfast friend of Israel, who has stood by our side in challenging times.&#8221; He also praised Rama for fighting terror and antisemitism globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Sa&#8217;ar praised Albania&#8217;s long history of protecting Jews, highlighting in particular that it was the only European country whose Jewish population grew during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"FM Sa'ar: Britain\u2019s East Jerusalem consulate to close over sanctions\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_68666509197.jpg\"\/>FM Sa&#8217;ar: Britain\u2019s East Jerusalem consulate to close over sanctions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar and Albania\u2019s Infrastructure and Energy Minister, Eneida K\u00ebrcaku, signed an advanced aviation cooperation agreement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-644351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}