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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Israel cancels tourist visa requirement for Russians By Irit Rosenblum Tags: israel, Visa Requirements  The cabinet voted yesterday to cancel the visa requirement for tourists arriving in Israel from Russia. Only ministers from Shas voted against Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch's proposal. The move will only take effect if the Russians reciprocate by canceling the visa requirement for Israelis, a subject the Foreign Ministry is now handling. According to Aharonovitch, about four million Russian tourists visit the Middle East every year, but only 100,000 of them visit Israel. This, he claims, is due to the visa requirement, which other countries in the region do have. Advertisement Aharonovitch expects hundreds of thousands more Russian tourists to come here once the visa requirement is changed, and he predicts that the new tourists will spend hundreds of millions of shekels and create thousands of new jobs in the local tourism industry every year. Bookmark to del.icio.us Radical redcoats U.K. radical left wing is calling for a one-state solution. Bush goes nuts U.S. demands Israel halts illegal Iranian pistachio imports.   1.   VISA or not VISA 11:05  |  Shlomo 18/09/07   2.   Pay Day for White Slavery 14:24  |  Michael G 18/09/07   3.   Just what Israel needs... 16:28  |  RF 18/09/07   4.   #3 17:31  |  B 18/09/07   5.   VISA for Russians 17:37  |  Ronald 18/09/07   6.   To Michael G, the Hypocrite 17:51  |  Jake 18/09/07   7.   visas 23:40  |  ari 18/09/07   8.   Only positive sides 23:59  |  Or 18/09/07

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