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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Israel in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 150 of 233 · rank 100 among country destinations

AI models put Israel in their top 10 recommendations in 0.4% of answers, rank 150 overall. It does best when the question specifies travel style as cultural: 2.4%, +2.0 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −0.3 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Israel in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude0.9%
ChatGPT0.2%
Gemini0.0%
Grok0.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 51.6%
Claude Haiku 4.51.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.4%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.0%
Grok 4.60.4%

Web search and effort

Israel · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Israel with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off0.2%0.5%
Normal vs lowest effort0.3%0.5%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CulturalAdventureExotic
Change+2.00.0−0.4

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainWarm Weather
Change+0.5−0.4

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Where should I go?
Change0.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flightNonstop, 6–8 hours
Change0.00.0−0.4

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloFamily
Change−0.1−0.4

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringSummer
Change−0.1−0.4

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksWeekend
Change−0.2−0.4

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Jerusalem8
Tel Aviv3
Eilat1
Israel1
Israel (Jerusalem and Dead Sea)1

Israel

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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