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Warren Buffet and Eitan Wertheimer walking through a market in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday. (Reuters)

Last update - 23:45 17/09/2006

Billionaire Warren Buffet lands in Israel for 36-hour visit

By Ora Koren, Haaretz Correspondent

Billionaire businessman Warren Buffet on Sunday landed in Israel for a lightening tour of the country.

During his 36-hour stay he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and visit the premises of Iscar, the Israeli high tech company he purchased in a $4 billion deal.

Iscar's founder and chairman, Eitan Wertheimer, will accompany the business tycoon on his visit. They are scheduled to visit the biotechnological center at Haifa's Rambam hospital together.

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Buffet will also speak to some 300 businessmen and economists, including the industry, trade and labor minister MK Eli Yishai, at a banquet at the King David hotel in Jerusalem.

During the Lebanon war, Buffet said he considered the Galilee-based Iscar to be a good investment despite coming under fire of rockets launched by Hezbollah.

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