El-Al was simply trying to encourage travel to Israel and Tel Aviv, and given the massive illicit sex industry of Tel Aviv, why not advertise it.

This is absolutely crazy! Who is supervising these people? This is the result of years of increasingly secular, anti-religious education in the Israeli school system. "A light unto the nations", huh?

gone down to this level in order to bring tourists. This country has SO many attractions and selling features, if all you want is sex tourism, go to Amsterdam, Bangkok or Vegas. The mayor of Tel Aviv must feel like one big-ass pimp right now. Did the ministry even ask themselves once, are these the types of tourist that we want in our country? Think of all the social problem this would bring with them. Do they want everyone in Tel-Aviv to have STD's? Do they want prostitutes on every corner? Way to win international respect guys. Please resign from your current jobs and take up shop by the old central bus station in T-A, you'll fit in much better there. How thoughtless can people be?

They promotion was for Tel Aviv ... so condom they may be almost logical but no so elegant. Dead sea soap bar maybe be better .... but have some humor it was in Londn too!

that will be the Real Promotion.

what is the point of this silly article!

now they advertise it as a general "sexual satisfaction" center, and hand out condoms to officials? Yeah, keep going with that, Tel-Aviv tourist moguls. You're doing wonders for Tel-Aviv's image. /sarcasm

No pun intended!

This is large size ? it is small here

Too much, cats! Lord, you Israelis must really be grabbing at PR straws to come up with this kind of marketing stunt. Make sure ye pack a Johnny-cap or two in yer pocket for yer next visit to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, lads? This posting for real, YNET? Very funk! Too funk!

...distributes" Wellcome to Israel condoms" to Europe. Tel Aviv municipality`s Gomorrh Branch declares the month of June as "Wellcome to Gays Month" to Tel Aviv. Would you imagine ? Israeli flags should get their Star of David replaced by a beautiful colorful ....condom.

but way past a practical joke or "creative marketing". The people responsible should be fired at once for seriously damaging our image. Are these the same idiots who marketed a practically naked female model for our tourism posters? We are not a sex-tourism country on the contrary, we have a long and cultured history, and this should be our focus, together with our tourist sites and historic places.

This sexual tourism is disgusting it makes Israel look like a seedy place to come and not the Holy Land. The mayor of Tel Aviv was recently encouraging people to come to Israel because they have some great gay pride parades. An MK saying we should take in persecuted arab gays. First we get flyers handed out advertising Tel Aviv sex shops and saunas with pictures of men to try and attract the gay population. Now condoms this is disgusting and the tourism ministry should be doing something about it. If the only thing worth coming to Tel Aviv for is sex then its not much of a city. This attempt to try and sell Tel Aviv as some sort of sex city is bad for the country and bad for the city itself if it wants to be attracting families. Are we going to be handing out flyers next with the phone numbers of prostitutes? Time to replace the mayor of Tel Aviv and the tourism ministry to start cracking down on how any city tries to promote itself abroad and as a place to come for sex or gay pride parades. Israels image abroad must be of a family friendly country.

We didn't give all those Israel made condoms to him. We forced him to play with his fit young bodygaurds unprotected and so the poor old guy died of AIDS thanks to Israels refusal to give him some condoms.

That is repulsive. To me that says that Israeli women are viewed as no better than prostitutes. It is inexcusable and unforgiveable by the Tourism Ministry