Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller arrived in Jerusalem yesterday landing in a private plane in Atarot Airport. Rockefeller, here as guest of the Bank of Israel and the Treasury, was reportedly touring the Mideast to investigate possibilities for increasing the bank’s activities in Arab countries.
In Israel he was scheduled to meet Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz, and Bank of Israel governor Moshe Zanbar. He was also to tour Jerusalem as a guest of Mayor Teddy Kollek.
Although the Chase Manhattan has been negotiating to open a branch in Cairo, Rockefeller told newsmen his bank had no plans to open a branch in Jerusalem, too. Next on Rockefeller’s schedule are Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and several Persian Gulf principalities.
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