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As peace in the Middle East be-
comes a reality, Israel's ports of
entry are bracing for an un-
precedented tourist influx.
Last year, a record 5,924,047
travelers passed through the
country's main gateway, Ben-
Gurion International Airport —
an increase of more than 18 per-
cent over the 1993 figure and
over a hundred times the 50,000
travelers who came in 1950.

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The new Welcome Hall.

The airport dealt with 43,569
flights in 1994, compared with
36,400 in 1993. Now its man-
agement is bracing for as many
as 16 million travelers annually
by the end of the decade.
"Israel will become the natur-
al center of the Middle East, and
Ben- Gurion is its busiest air-
port," predicted Israel's Minister
of Transport Yisrael Keisar dur-
ing the inauguration ceremony
of the airport's new $7 million
Welcome Hall.
The 36,000-square-foot air-
conditioned Welcome Hall, ca-
pable of holding up to 2,000
people, is but one stage of a $500
million airport reconstruction
plan known as Ben-Gurion 2000.
Mr. Keisar hopes to see the pro-
ject completed in time for Israel's
50th Independence Day cele-
bration in May 1998.
Some $30 million will be in-
vested over the next two years in
improving — in many cases set-
ting up — other border crossings
and ports. 'The airport is the first
aspect most tourists see of Is-
rael," notes Israel Ports Author-
ity General Manager Motti Deri,
"but it certainly is not the coun-
try's only gateway."
A network of some 20 airstrips
has been set up throughout Is-
rael for short-hop internal flights,
which are becoming a regular
feature of business life in this era
of gridlocked roads. Some 1.5
million Israelis flew internally
last year, with the numbers
growing by a steady 5 percent
monthly.
The Taba border crossing with
Egypt is currently being up-
graded. The. September 1994
handshake between Israel's
7' Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and Jordan's King Hussein

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