The Yedioth Ahronoth website pointed out in a report that “thousands of Israelis in Turkey are ignoring official warnings and refusing to cut their flights, with Israel stepping up its warning campaign against travel there, especially to Istanbul.”

The website says: “These warnings, including raising the National Security Council’s Office of Terrorism to Grade Four, the highest level, have not stopped Israelis who boarded dozens of tourist flights yesterday Monday from Ben- Gurion in Lod. Turkey, half an hour from each plane.

The website states that “thousands of Israelis are set to spend their holidays in Turkey following the improvement in relations between the two sides in recent months, exchanges of visits between high-ranking officials, and low tourism prices, especially when compared to Turkish hotels in Istanbul, Antalya and other places. Tourist areas with very high prices in Israel, especially in Eilat, and hotels in the Galilee.

And Israeli newspapers reported: “Turkish authorities arrested a group of (Iranian) cells that were planning to kidnap or kill Israelis on Turkish soil after the Israeli intelligence services passed intelligence information to the Turkish side about the movements of Iranian cells in Turkey. territory to conduct operations against Israeli tourists in response to the assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Colonel Hassan Sayyad Hodai last month.

Israel’s warnings reached their climax yesterday, Monday, when Foreign Minister Yair Lapid urged Israelis to leave Turkey “as soon as possible,” amid growing reports from Israel of “rapid intervention” by Israeli security agencies to warn a group of Israeli tourists not to return to hotels. where they were staying, they were immediately and rushed to the airport, leaving their bags behind.

At the same time, Lapid warned Iran and “anyone who touches or tries to target Israeli tourists” that “the hand of Israel will reach them and they will not escape punishment.”