It was a “mistake” for Israel to give the Palestinians control over important tourist destinations such as Bethlehem, Israel’s tourism minister said at the International Tourist Exposition this week in Moscow. Rehavam Ze’evi, a member of the right-wing National Union Party, said he thinks the Israeli government should “correct this mistake.”
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