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erusalem, the center of
three major religions, may
attract 3.2 million visitors
next year according to
Israel's Ministry o
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during the 2000 millennium year.

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along the half-finished
promenade on the Mount of
Olives, tourists and pilgrims
line the stone wall and wire
fencing separating them from the con-
struction site in front of them.
Focusing their cameras and videos
on the sloping Kidron Valley below
and the gleaming golden Dome of the
Rock beyond, they have come to this
site in the hopes of capturing on film
an idyllic, peaceful Holy Land scene.
But this may not be the image they
remember when they return home.
Instead, they are most likely to
recall jostling for space with other vis-
itors, the incessant calls of young Arab
peddlers urging them to buy postcards

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or take a ride on a camel, and, most
annoyingly, the heavy tourist bus traf-
fic noisily snaking along only a few
feet behind them.
Welcome to pre-millennium Israel,
which is busily gearing up for the
flood of visitors expected during the
year 2000.
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
concedes Jerusalem is crowded, and
will only get more crowded as the
new year approaches.
"There is not much we can do
under the best of circumstances," said
the mayor, who isn't even sure there
will be enough hotel rooms but at the
least intends to have a better traffic
system and a ban on peddlers in place
by the time the tourists arrive.
The biggest problem is not know-
ing how many that will be. The
Ministry of Tourism is figuring 3.2