Row after Chinese tourists charged £3,280 at Israeli restaurant

Tour operators’ association posts copy of bill on social media as owners of Abu Ghosh defend cost of meal

A group of eight Chinese tourists in Israel has been handed a 16,500-shekel (£3,280) bill after visiting a restaurant in the hills outside Jerusalem where one might typically expect to spend tens of pounds on a meal.

The cost of the meal at the Abu Ghosh restaurant in the Israeli Arab village of the same name, famous for its unpretentious eateries often specialising in hummus, came to light after an Israeli tour operators’ association posted a copy of the bill on social media and suggested that the tourists may have been “suckered”.