Israel and Czechoslovakia have established direct trade connections.
They are doing business valued at about $11 million annually through a trading company acquired for the purpose by the Czech government.
Until recently, trade between Israel and Czechoslovakia had been conducted through a third country. There are still no diplomatic relations, which the Czechs broke in 1967.
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