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During the Dan's 50th Anniversary Year,
every guest staying at a Dan Hotel during
our Jubilee year, from May 1, 1997 to
April 30, 1998, is invited for a free glass
of champagne at the hotel bar.
Every guest celebrating a 50th birthday
or a 50th wedding anniversary during
their stay at a Dan Hotel (from May 1,
1997 to April 30, 1998) is invited to a
dinner for two — The Special Jubilee
Menu — at the hotel. The guest will also
receive a complimentary gift.

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King David Jerusalem
Dan Tel Aviv
Dan Carmel, Haifa
Dan Accadia, Herzliya
Dan Caesarea
Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv
Dan Panorama, Haifa
Dan Pearl, Jerusalem
Dan Eilat

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Rates effective March 1- July 1, 1997 (excluding April 18-30, 1997).
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Rates based on a minimum of 7 nights in one hotel or a combination of two hotels or more.
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Israel Hotel Representatives (212) 752-6120
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Desert Backwater
Vs. Major Metropolis

Once little more than a camel market, the Negev
capital is now an important center of commerce,
learning and tourism.

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hen tourism to Israel city in the land of Israel con-
began in earnest in the quered by the British (to this day
early 1960s, the town of visitors come to the tranquil and
Beersheba was not beautifully manicured British
-much more than a pit-stop en war cemetery — last resting
route to Eilat or the Dead Sea, place of the hundreds of British,
notable mostly for its colorful and Australian and New Zealand sol-
frenetic Thursday morning diers who died during the battle
Bedouin camel market.
for Beersheba).
Arguably more than four mil-
In 1948, Beersheba became
lennia old, Beersheba is men- part of the fledgling State of Is-
tioned early in the Old Testament rael; and very quickly, the old
as the site in the promised land town built by the Turks began
where Abraham and Isaac set- rapid expansion as Israel ab-
tled — and just four miles to the sorbed more than 1 million im-
northeast of today's city, the ex- migrants in less than four years.
cavations at the Tel Beersheba In 1997, Beersheba's population
reveal civilization here stretch- has grown from the few thousand
ing back to the dawn of time.
in 1948 — and is now reaching
Considered the capital of Is- 200,000 making it Israel's fourth-
rael's southern Negev desert, largest metropolis, a city of light
Beersheba first reached a level of and heavy industry, commerce
modern-day importance in the and higher learning.
1880s when it became the Ot-
There is still an aura of quaint-
toman Turks' center of admin- ness and frontier charm about
istration for the region's Bedouin the old town — laid out by the
tribes. In 1917, it was the first Turks' German engineers at the