Nearly nine million tourists have visited Israel since the establishment of the State, the Central Bureau for Statistics reported Monday. Of these, close to seven million came since the Six-Day War, of which approximately 3.4 million came since 1975. This compares to only 325,000 visits which took place between 1948-1958.
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