Israelis travel the country also. They tour historical sites with family and with friends visiting from abroad. Every Israeli is an amateur tour guide. While in school, Israeli children are taken on yearly hikes and trips and overnights all around the country, preparing them for summertime in Israel as an adult. Weekend papers describe new archeological finds and the Israelis go running out to investigate for themselves.
Teenagers go hiking and biking on their own, sometimes in some pretty dangerous places.
But most of all Israelis leave the country in the summer. They love to travel - at home, but mostly, abroad. It is cheaper for a family to visit France than Eilat, and cooler, too. The European packages include flights and hotels plus other benefits. Four nights in France is the price of two in Eilat, without the flight.