The State Department announced today that it has lifted restrictions on travel to Israel and four other nations.
State Department spokesman Carl Bartch said the ban, imposed on June 5 when the Arab-Israeli war erupted, would no longer be in effect for Israel, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. But restrictions will remain in force for Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The prohibition on travel to the nine Arab nations was continued “because of conditions resulting from recent hostilities in the Near East.”
(In New York, the Israel Government Tourist Office announced here today that all “tourist services, hotels and transport facilities throughout Israel are operating normally.” Abbie Ben Arie, director of the office, also said that organized groups may visit the Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, starting Sunday, June 25. He said he would like “to invite every American Jew to make a personal pilgrimage to Jerusalem to stand with Israel once more in the shadow of the Western Wall, to share the power and spirit of a unified Jerusalem.”)
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