4.8 Million Israelis Traveled Overseas in 2013

4.8 million Israelis traveled overseas in 2013, according to a report in Yisrael Hayom.

That's an amazing number, considering there are only 8 million citizens in Israel. It's also the highest ratio of travelers to citizens in the world.

It's was a 11.6% increase from 2012, up from 4.3 million. The average traveler's age is 40, and 900,000 Israelis traveled out more than once.

July and August accounted for 1.7 million Israelis abroad. If you add in the holidays in September and October, that number jumps to 2.7 million. An astounding one-third of the country was overseas at the same time.

With numbers like that, it's no wonder Israel never feels crowded.

Quite interesting, the time when most Israelis stop flying out of Israel are during wars and national emergencies, when the number of travelers out of the country drops dramatically and people choose to stay in Israel.

Go figure.