These days, the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem is empty in more ways than one.

"Tourism is essentially not a functioning industry anymore," says Israeli tour guide Uri Goldflam, standing outside the Upper Room — the traditional site of Jesus' Last Supper. Once bustling with visitors, the sacred space is now silent.

"It used to be the sixth-largest export industry in Israel," Goldflam told CBN News. "Today, it doesn't exist as an industry. There aren't enough tourists to fill calendars."

It's been a brutal one-two punch for Israel's tourism sector — first the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, and then, just months after recovery began in 2023, the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7.

At the City of David, tour guide Yehuda Deutsch gestures toward the empty pathways. "Where are all the people?" he as

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