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Japanese Execs
Visit Israel

Jerusalem (JPFS) — Twenty leading
executives from Japan will visit Israel
to investigate possible investments and
joint ventures, particularly in the
semiconductors industry, according to c--(
a senior official in the Industry and
Trade Ministry.
The leaders of the group including
representatives of Toshiba, NKK
Corp., and Tokyo Electron, will visit
five companies in Israel, including
Intel, according to one of the trip's
organizers, Koichi Naito, the general
manager of Nissho Iwai Corp.'s Tel
Aviv liaison office.
Nissho executives say their compa-
ny has received many more requests
from Japan about Israel since the Far
East crisis began.
The Japanese have always treated
the Far East as its backyard but now
are coming to the realization that they
need to hunt out new markets, added
Naito. The company's head office is
currently preparing to invest in several'
Israeli high-tech firms as Is its sister
company Nissho Electronics.
Nissho's Tel Aviv office says the
uncertainty in Asia also is leading
Israeli firms to think more carefully.

When Business
Beats Politics
A new generation of
Arab entrepreneurs are
happy to trade with
Israel.

STEVE RODAN

Special to The Jewish News

1ff eet Omar Salah. He's
28, dashing, rich and
unafraid to trade with
what many Arabs still
refer to as the "little Satan."
In 1993, Salah, a Jordanian educat-
ed in the United States and raised in .
Britain, saw an opportunity. Israel had'
just signed an agreement with the
PLO on interim peace. Soon after,
Jordan signed its own accord with
Israel. Salah knew that trade links
would be next and he wanted to be
first on line.
Salah began to visit Israel and to
forge contacts with Israeli industrial-