For the first time in many years, hotel rooms are available in Israel for the High holiday season after some hotels, which had been booked to capacity, received a number of cancellations. There was speculation that the cholera scare and the recent hijacking of airliners by Arab guerrillas led to the cancellations, However, officials added, there is still a constant stream of tourists arriving for the High Holy Day season.
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