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"The fruits of the government's
labor are drowning in the sea of
unemployment, while the governor of
the Bank of Israel sings praises to the
lowering of inflation," said Labor and
Social Affairs Minister Eli Yishai.
The number of new immigrants
seeking work decreased by some 200
last month to 10,800, forming some 7
percent of the job seekers.

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Technion Aids
Sleep Centers

Jerusalem (JPFS) — A Boston compa-
ny that provides health services to
Harvard University has signed an
agreement with the Technion's sleep
medicine labs to establish and operate
sleep medicine centers in the United
States.
The Haifa labs will supply Sleep
Health Centers Ltd., which was
founded last year, with all the infor-
mation and experience the company
needs to open centers for diagnosing
and treating patients suffering from
sleep apnea, insomnia and other sleep
disorders.
In addition, the two groups will
cooperate on developing a clinical data
base and on clinical research to test
new technologies relating to sleep
medicine that are developed in the
Haifa center. In exchange, the
Technion is getting shares in the U.S.
company.

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Tourism Slumped
In 1997

Jerusalem (JTFS) — A total of
2,288,000 tourists visited Israel last
year, a drop of 3 percent compared to
1996, according to the Central Bureau
of Statistics and Tourism Ministry.
The decline, said Tourism Ministry
spokesperson Orly Doron, was actual-
ly less than had been predicted, espe-
cially given the terror attacks in Tel
Aviv's Apropo cafe in March in
Jerusalem's Mahaneh Yehuda market
inJuly and on the capital's Ben-
Yehuda pedestrian mall in September.
According to CBS, there had been
a decline in the number of incoming
tourists during the first half of 1996,
but this leveled off during the second
part of that year, and the number of
visitors remained stable through last
year.

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