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Jerusalem (JTA) — Setting a
record for the number of visitors
coming to Israel in any given
year, the 2 millionth tourist to en-
ter Israel in 1994 received a fes-
tive welcome at Ben-Gurion
Airport.
Marian Graves of Albany,
N.Y., arrived on an El Al Airlines
flight to find herself greeted by a
welcoming committee that in-
cluded Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and Tourism Minister Uzi
Baram.
Ms. Graves, a first-time visitor
to Israel, received a check for
$1,740 to cover her plane ticket
and expenses during her stay in
Israel.
"I'm so excited, thank you so
much for the welcoming commit-
tee," said Ms. Graves, who was
accompanied on the trip by her
husband.
Mr. Baram has spearheaded a
tourism campaign aimed at reap-
ing the benefits of the ongoing
peace process by drawing an un-
precedented number of tourists
to the region.

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Prague (JTA) — The Israeli am-
bassador to the Czech Republic
bestowed a posthumous Right-
eous Among the Nations Award
to a couple who gave refuge to
three Jews in a Slovak village
during World War II.
At a ceremony at the Israeli
Embassy in Prague on Nov. 24.,
Ambassador Moshe Yegar deliv-
ered the award to Ruzena Step-
nickova, the daughter of Vojtech
and Anna Mjartus, who risked
their lives to hide in their home
three Jews in a Slovak village.
Ms. Stepnickova, who was 8
years old at the time of her par-
ents' heroic action, was accom-
panied at the ceremony by her
husband and two granddaugh-
ters.
Mr. Yegar said the action of
Ms. Stepnickova's parents had
been risky for the entire family
and that it was a greater act of
heroism than fighting on the bat-
tlefield.
"They could not guess whether
their humanitarian deed would
go on for weeks only, or for
months or years," said Mr. Yegar.
"They could not anticipate
when the war would end or
whether the Nazis would be de-
feated. In spite of this they acted
as they did because of their hu-
manism and moral strength."
Mr. Yegar noted pointedly that
in the same village where the
Mjartus family succeeded in sav-
ing three lives, 18 other Jews
were hunted down and executed
by the Nazis