The woman was vacationing with her family.

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The family is receiving assistance from the ministry and from Israeli Consul in Bangkok Etty Mizrachi, who is helping arrange to have their daughter flown back to Israel for burial.

Last month, another Israeli, also 22, was killed in a mountain climbing accident in northeast Spain.

In August, a 30-year-old resident of Kibbutz Maabarot was killed in a climbing accident in the German Alps.

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Ahead of the week-long annual Jewish festival that ironically commemorates the Jewish Exodus from ancient Egypt and the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery, figures from the Israel Airports Authority estimated that over 85,000 people will pass through the Taba border in both directions over the holiday period this year.

Prioritizing hedonism over security concerns, this would amount to 40,000 vacationing in Sinai this year which is an increase of 20% on the year before, Globes reported.

Israel's Counter-Terrorism Bureau in the National Security Council warned that those planning to head to the volatile region that there was a "serious threat of the perpetration of terrorist attacks against Sinai tourists, including Israelis."

Repeating its call, the bureau urged Israelis who were currently there to "leave the area immediately and return to Israel" and "strongly recommends that all those wishing to go to Sinai refrain from doing so."

However, these comments are merely cautionary and are not legally binding.

Despite the strongly-worded comment, Israeli media reported on Monday that more than 23,000 Israelis had already crossed the Taba border this week, with more likely to head to the popular, sunny beach destination as the Passover holiday draws to a close at the end of the week.

The Sinai is massively popular amongst Israelis for its geographically-convenient location, miles-long stretches of untouched beaches, crystal clear waters famed for snorkeling and diving, as well as for its laid-back Bedouin-run camps that offer cheap accommodation and fair-priced food.

However, with so many Israelis passing through the border at the same time, their holiday began with a far less relaxing beginning.

In a Channel 12 report aired on Sunday night, one traveler said she had been waiting on the Egyptian side of the border for over three hours, waiting for a taxi driver to escort her to her accommodation.

"It is crazy packed here," she said, "I'm sure there are more people here than at the exodus from Egypt," she added, in reference to the Passover story.

In a rare move during the Passover holiday in 2017, the High Court decided to shutter the Taba border crossing for the duration of the holiday forcing angry citizens to abandon their vacation plans. This was triggered by a security assessment indicating immediate threats to tourists posed by Islamic State-affiliated jihadists who have been battling the Egyptian army and waging a bloody insurgency since the 2013 military overthrow of Egypt's form Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Prior to Israel's withdrawing from the Sinai in 1982, the crossing had been shuttered in 2014 following a terror attack on the Egyptian side of the border and in 2011, when an Israeli security assessment again deemed it as unsafe.

In 2004, there were three bombing attacks target tourists in the Sinai killed 34 including 12 Israelis.

In 2005, the Sharm el-Sheikh suicide attack killed 88, including one Israeli.

Since February 2018, the Egyptian military has launched a sweeping operation focused on the Sinai in eastern Egypt aimed at wiping out the jihadists, that has been largely viewed as successful.

This article was originally published by i24NEWS. Read more at https://www.i24news.tv/en. 

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In April alone, a million travelers are expected to fly through Ben-Gurion Airport, an increase of 11% compared to the same period in 2018.

On Sunday this week, over 75,000 travelers landed at or took off from Ben-Gurion. Outbound traffic by Israelis peaked on Wednesday and Thursday, the two days prior to Passover eve, which falls on Friday. On Thursday alone, some 85,000 Israelis took off for foreign destinations.

Another 83,000 travelers – arriving and departing – are expected to pass through Ben-Gurion Airport this coming Sunday (April 21), and the following Sunday (April 28) is expected to break April records for passenger traffic, with over 93,000 travelers scheduled to fly through Tel Aviv.

Ben-Gurion Airport serves some 25 million travelers per year. Recent years have seen a steady uptick in the number of Israelis spending the Passover holiday abroad. Israel is one of the few countries in the world where it is cheaper to spend vacations outside the country rather than at local leisure destinations.

Adi, a resident of central Israel, testified to that. On Wednesday, he and his family – his wife, children, and his parents – took off for Budapest.

"We almost settled on a hotel in Eilat, and then we saw an ad for a vacation in Budapest – three nights, including seder, at a four-star hotel. We paid less than 15,000 shekels [$4,200], including the flight. In Eilat we would have had to pay 2,000 shekels [$557] more, not including travel expenses," Adi told Israel Hayom.

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