Israel surprised and pampered a special tourist this week - tourist #3,000,000.

3 million tourists!

The pampering included upgrading the hotel suite, a limo tour, a helicopter tour, a culinary tour, a special Dead Sea tour, and PM Benjamin Netanyahu himself leading a tour of the Tower of David Museum, along with more treats and activities.

That is an awful lot of tourists to come to our little country.

I wonder how they counted. Is it based on computer tracking of tourist visas that entered the country since 1948, or some other date? This would include thousands of yeshiva students (and maybe others) who come on tourist visas (rather than on student visas), as many do.

However they do it, that is an impressive number of tourists and it was nice of them to commemorate the event so nicely.