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Israel's Number One Industry Sends
Its Number One Guide to Brief Agents
Israeli Journalist Seeks Ties With Colleagues in Egypt, Atlas Reports
"In order to beat Israel, the tiny
NEW YORK—From the smolder- tennis, horse - racing and other
door
ing hatreds of Israeli-Arab fencing sports "very seldom do you find enemy, they've opened the
wide
to the gigantic friend who
Russians
on
these
marvelous
broad
and sniping has emerged the sug-
By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
spent an average of 14 days in Is-
seems ever more to be setting him-
gestion from Tel Aviv that journal- lawns and terraces . . . like evil
Israel's top tour guide picked rael, the longest tourist stay in ists from each side talk to each genii they have withdrawn into a self up as a permanent resident.
As long as the war, even the con-
a rough time to address travel ag- any country of the world.
other across the battle lines so that joyless dark hole."
frontation without conflict, lasts,
encies in the United States. When
It may have something to do they might one day cease to be
The report continues that even Nasser needs the military support
Jerry Avnon reached Detroit, an with the renowned hospitality of enemies.
when on duty the Russian mili- of the Soviet Union, and thereby
American tourist had just been a "Jewish home", for "when a
tary wears civilian clothes: "An
Eliezer Livne of Haaretz, Tel
makes his own vassal status fir-
killed in an Arab attack on the Jewish tourist comes to Israel, he
Egyptian colonel doesn't like to
Aviv's
largest
newspaper,
appeals
mer."
north shore of the Dead Sea.
feels at home. He asks questions
for mutual understanding to Ma-
be ordered about by a Soviet
But Avnon, citing the figures of us he wouldn't dare ask of a hammed Hassantin Haykal, editor
lieutenant or sergeant, but if the
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
to prove it, was sure that Ameri- French guide or an Italian guide. of Al Ahram, Nasser's Cairo
Soviet officer is not in uniform
Friday, June 27, 1969-17
can tourists will continue to pack He asks about politics, about our mouthpiece, in a letter translated
it
helps."
Israel's hotels as in recent years. salaries, about everything imagin- in the July issue of Atlas Maga-
Moreover, the Russians know
able.
But
that's
all
right;
we
want
He didn't rule out the possibilit y
zine, containing a five-article Mid
they are not liked, despite the bil-
of some cancellations, but added them to feel they're at home." East roundup.
lions they are spending on their
"Hotels
have
been
booked
Most
tourists
to
Israel
are
Jewish;
Vefi2C0 ELECTRONIC
that
Livne says he hopes his letter projects ranging from the Aswan
GARAGE DOOR
solid for the summer; you can't some 30 to 35 per cent are not. will be published in Al Abram "the
Dam to the steel works of Halwan,
OPENER
get a bed in Tel Aviv." The tourism ministry is strin-
same way that your own editorials from the shipyards in Alexandria
Avnon was here from Tel Aviv gent on standards for its guides,
are published, at times in full, in to the giant new irrigation chan-
discussions on tourism at said Avnon. Even those teachers
to lead
Haaretz" and asks if Haykal would nets in the delta.
a series of Israel familiarization and students who serve as licens-
concede "that there could be some
Egyptian foreign policy, says the
seminars sponsored by the Israel ed guides only for the summer advantage in a Jewish journalist
Ministry of Tourism and El Al attend tourist school for a year
a rticle in Atlas has been reduced
and thinker exchanging views with
Airlines. and must pass a test that covers
the simple formula that "Israel's
to
an Arab colleague?"
everything from Israel history
foe is our friend, Israel's friend is
He found the Dead Sea inci-
While the Middle East seethes
Call Evenings Until 9
and Bible to archaeology. "Un-
our foe" and as a result the coun-
to be unusual as well as '
with tensions left by the Six
like
try has virtually been signed over
like tour guides in other coun-
353-3284
unfortunate, for, he said, Israeli
Days
War
and
anticipation
of
tries, our guides know the coun-
to the Soviet.
tour guides are instructed to
further large-scale conflict, one
try from tip to tip; they are well
avoid areas of possible danger.
fact that stands out clearly is
educated in both Jewish and
(Tourism Minister Moshe Kol
growing dislike among Arabs for
Christian history."
has warned visitors to stay away
the Russians.
He added that there are many
from cease-fire lines, but added Arab guides, perhaps not as con-
The depth of this bitterness and
TETI MIR
that compliance is up to the
the
causes are revealed in another
versant as the Israeli Jewish
the individual. The U.S. State
ME BEST
article by Weltwoche of Zurich,
guides, but qualified neverthe-
Department has issued a similar
one
of
Switzerland's
leading
pub-
BUICK YET
less. Only in Arab Nazareth does
warning to American tourists for
lications,
which
sent
famed
jour-
the guide turn the tourists over to
the past several months.)
a native. Such has been the cus- nalist Peter Schmid to Egypt for a
One of the 1,200 licensed tour tom in Israel since statehood; the first-hand report.
Journalist Schmid found that
guides in Israel 1240 are full- government did not wish to take
LARGEST STOCI
time). Avnon was selected for the the livelihood away from the eiti- "the degrading sense of being peo-
OF AWLS IN SKI
ple
who are no longer masters of
six-week trip here to apprise tra• zees of this Christian holy city.
their own fate, who have been
vel agents throughout the country
Since the Six-Day War, guides
on historical background, tourist have taken "crash courses" into drawn into an overwhelming cur-
facilities and items of interest the background of the liberated rent, permeates every conversa-
tion one holds in Cairo."
about Israel. Better-informed tras
vel agents are important to his territories. This has meant new
He says that Soviet advisers and
country, which now counts tour- business for the Arab residents, technical experts are shielded
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ism as its number one industry, particularly in East Jerusalem, from interviews and that military
w here new hotels and restaurants advisers "are cloaked in darkness:
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said Avnon.
- SERVICE THAT SATISFIES"
will bring prosperity.
no one has seen them, no one
The tourism ministry picked the
The. Israel Tourism Ministry is knows how many there are."
right man for the job: well-versed
Near Eastern history and archae- encouraging parents to bring their
While Hungarian, Czech and
in
ology, Avron has been a tour con- children for the summer, and this Yugoslav technicians mix freely
ductor for 15 years and has led will be a big summer indeed: Pab- with Egyptian society at the Ge-
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land and Scotland. Itival. and the Maccabia Games will
The 34-year-old gtilde—born in draw Jewish athletes from
Germany "but reborn in Israel"— ; throughout the world. Despite the
said that last year 432.000 visitors summer attractions, however,
March and April with their many
• holidays, continue to be the height
of the tourist season.
Avnon, who usually leads car
tours but also an occasional bus
trip, has learned well the foi-
1 bles of tourists, but diplomati-
cally declines to label them by
nationality. "The worst tourist,"
I he said, "is the sick one."
He did say, however, that the
I few Polish Jews who have been al-
I lowed to visit Israel invariably find
• that "It's nice here, but, of course,
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national conference of rabbis and
religious lay leaders has urged
Jews all over the world to visit Is-
rael in greater numbers than ever
before and not to be intimidated
by recent acts of terrorism.
The appeal was contained in a
resolution adopted at the close of
the conference which was devoted
to tourism. It was attended by the
chief rabbis of Britain, France and
South Africa and Israel's two chief
rabbis.
Monday, the gathering was ad-
dressed by Minister of Tourism
Moshe Kol and representatives of
the Jewish Agency. The latter
noted that tourists are now eligible
for preferential mortgages for
houses they build in Israel.
Kol promised that standard
tourist itineraries in the future
will put greater emphasis on re-
ligious aspects of life in Israel.
Kol spoke in reply to allegations
that many tourists complained that
their tours gave no evidence that
there was any religious life in Is-
rael. He said that if rabbis from
abroad wanted to demonstrate
their solidarity with religious insti-
tutions in Israel, they should visit
with their congregants on Sukkot
or some other festival to lead a
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