"This is just one sign of Israel's robust economic expansion. At a time when the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza are teetering on the brink of a collapse, Israeli growth - 6.6 percent GDP rise in the first quarter of 2006 - has returned to the torrid pace set before the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising...Tourists are filling up hotels. Private spending jumped 10.3 percent in the first three months of the year and the real estate market is heating up."