U.S. Tourism
to Israel Up

NEW YORK — Tourism
from the United States to
Israel is breaking all re-
cords, according to Moshe
Shoshani, Israel's new
commissioner for tourism to
North America.
"We welcomed 30 percent
more American visitors this
May and 46 percent more in
June than in the same
months of 1982," Shoshani
said. "Overall, we expect to
end 1983 with some 320,000
American tourists visiting
the country, 15 percent
more than last year. We
have already surpassed the
previous record set in 1980."
In 1981, the Ministry of
Tourism undertook a major
advertising and promo-
tional campaign designed to
persuade Americans that
Israel could offer them not
only a spiritual experience,
but also a multi-faceted va-
cation in a country billed as
"The Miracle on the
Mediterranean."
The efforts increased in
1983 with a massive na-
tional television, radio and
print campaign.

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Rabbi Claims
Jewish Law
Forbids Smoking

WINNIPEG (JTA) — A
Canadian Orthodox rabbi
told a world conference on
smoking and health here
that he regarded smoking
as a destructive and suicidal
act and therefore forbidden
by Jewish religious law.
Rabbi Reuven Bulka of
Ottawa made that state-
ment in a presentation to
the 1,500 delegates from 60
countries attending the
Fifth World Conference on
smoking and health. Bulka
said "one is not permitted to
destroy life, life being a gift
of God entrusted to us,
rather than being ours."
He added that "the bibli-
cal exhortation 'But for your
own lifeblood I will require
a reckoning' (Genesis 9:5)
applies to any suicidal act.
Cigarette smoking undoub-
tedly belongs in that cate-
gory." He maintained that
anything injurious to
health is forbidden.

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Oil Dismissed
as Arab Weapon

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Binyamin Netanyahu, the
minister at the Israel Em-
bassy in Washington in a
speech to Jewish college
students spending the
summer as interns to mem-
bers of the Senate and
House, noted that after the
Israeli move into Lebanon
nothing was heard about
the use of Arab oil as a
weapon against the West as
a means of pressuring Is-
rael.
This is not just because
many Arab countries
"secretly cheered" Israel's
efforts to wipe out the Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion and its terrorist activi-
ties, Netanyahu explained.
Instead, he argued, a "most
dramatic development" has
occurred in which the West
is no longer as dependent on
Arab oil as it was in the
1970s.

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