Minister of Tourism Moshe Kol reported in the Knesset (Parliament yesterday that more than 30,000 tourists visited Israel during December, 1968 — a 14 percent increase over December, 1967. He said the total was considerably greater than the number of non-Arab tourists who used to visit Jordan in December, the month of traditional Christmas pilgrimages.
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