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ROCHELLE LIEDERMAN

and the staff of

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wish all
our friends and clients
a happy and healthy New Year!

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Wish Their Customers and Friends A

Jerusalem's Hotels
Are Struggling Back

NECHEMIA MEYERS

Special to The Jewish News

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est Jerusalem, the
Jewish section of
Israel's capital city,
is jumping, with thousands of
visitors strolling through its
bustling streets and crowding
into its innumerable eating
places.
Predominantly Arab east
Jerusalem, however, is almost
bereft of visitors, who have
been frightened away by the
knives, stones and Molotov
cocktails of the intifada.
So while tourism is far from
dead in Jerusalem, the city is
not enjoying the tourist boom
it expected before the intifada
broke out in December 1987.
This situation makes life dif-
ficult for Jerusalem hotels,
most of which were built or
expanded in anticipation of
that boom.
The Hyatt Regency is a case
in point. Put up over a period
of years at a cost of $60
million, it was, when it open-
ed in January 1987, by far the
largest hotel in Jerusalem

Necheinia Meyers writes from
Rehovot, Israel.

(with 503 rooms compared to
under 40 each in the Hilton
and King David); it was also
by far the handsomest.
But before it could really
get off the ground, the in-
tifada started and customers
became scarce for Jerusalem
hotels as a whole.
Now, after an uphill battle,
the Hyatt is finally earning a
modest profit, thanks in large
measure to its extensive

While tourism is far
from dead in
Jerusalem, the city
is not enjoying the
tourist boom it
expected before
the intifada.

resort facilities and its very
high level of service. Par-
ticularly notable is the "un-
Israeli" politeness of its per-
sonnel, divided more or less
equally between Jews and
Arabs.
There are now also a few
Russian immigrants on the
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