The Central Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday has issued some figures on arrivals and departures at Ben Gurion Airport in April, underlining the dramatic effect the coronavirus crisis had on the country’s main gateway.
Some 2,600 people left Israel through the airport (compared to 691,000 in April 2019). Some 5,800 Israelis returned from abroad (compared to 666,000 in 2019).
Meanwhile, some 600 visitors entered the country, compared to 428,000 in April 2019. Foreign citizens have largely been banned from entering the country amid the pandemic.
The figures show traffic dropped by some 99.4 percent compared to numbers recorded during the same period last year.