American Express Explains Hs Position in
Israel; Announces Continuation of Service

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Friday, May 9,

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Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

NEW YORK—The American
Express Company, which has
been charged with closing its
office in Israel under pressure
of the Arab boycott against
Israel, issued a statement
Wednesday declaring that the
office was closed in 1956 be-
cause it "did not create suf-
ficient revenues to become self-
sustaining."
The statement stressed that
"American Express now offers
to the traveling public a full
range of travel services to
Israel, including transportation,
hotel and sightseeing," and has
Israeli agents to service the
needs of its travel clients at
port and air terminals.
It claimed that this form of
representation through selected
agents is practiced by the com-
pany in 48 other countries. It
added that through local agents
in Israel, American Express
"continues to promote export
and import shipping business
with Israel" and is equipped to
arrange the sale of drafts pay-
able through Israeli banks.
(The Israeli Consulate in New
York, commenting on the Amer-
ican Express statement, said it
fails to answer the main ques-
_ tion. It is and remains strange
that American Express should
have closed their own office in
Israel in the spring of 1956, a
few months after a peak year
for Israeli tourism. A spokes-
man for the Israeli Consulate
said: "The alleged commercial
considerations for this action
make even strange.: reading in
the light of the record—break-
ing tourism to and in Israel,
stimulated by Israel's tenth an-
niversary, when almost every
shipping and air line has in-
creased their services to Isra-
el.")

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American Express emphasized
in its statement that in order
to maintain a profitable office
in any foreign country, the
firm must be able to develop
travel business • of local origin.
In the case of Israel, business
arising from this source was
negligible in view of restric-
tions imposed by the Israeli
government on its nationals (40
percent travel tax, travel allow-
ance of only $10 per person per
trip, and a mandatory exit per-
mit)," the statement said.
—"As a result, travel business
originating locally was almost
completely confined to a few
foreign tourists and representa-
tives of American institutions
who booked return passage
through American Express, Tel
Aviv. In the final analysis," the
statement continued, • "the of-
fice of American Express in
Tel Aviv did not create suf-
ficient revenues to become self-
s u s t a i n i n g; consequently, it
functioned merely to provide
non-revenue producing services
for. American Express clients
visiting Israel from other coun-
tries. In the course of five and
one-half years, American Ex-
press was unable to put the of-

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Tice on a paying basis despite
substantial investments in the
world-wide promotion of serv-
ices to Israel. Cumulative losses
from the operation continued to
rise; staff salary and wage ex-
penses increased by approxi-
mately 30 per cent in terms of
dollars, and this despite the re-
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duction otherwise expected
from depreciation of the Israeli
pound from $2.80 to 56 cents."
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explain that "American Ex-
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maintains an established policy
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111 North Shore Drives,Tel. 120, Smith Haven, Mich.-
promote sales • of financial and
shipping services for that coun
try," and that "a full range of
South Raven's Finest it enort t
American Express services for
Israel will always be offered OPEN MAY 27th
within the limits of demand for
such services."

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