Tourism from Brazil to Israel has increased 63 percent during the first four months of 1975 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to Yeshayahu Shay, head of the Israel Government Tourist Office for Latin America, Shay told Brazilian travel agents here that the number of tourists going to Israel from both Brazil and Argentina this year is expected to exceed 30,000. He said that a third of them would be Christian pilgrims.
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