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Article: Shalom means tourism. (Jordan) (Business & Finance)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 1995
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Jordan and Israel are doing business immediately after the signing of peace deal. The most thriving trade is the Israeli tourist traffic which started even before the treaty, that the politically and socially unthinkable of a few years ago has become a Cultural reality.
THE SIGNS ON THE BORDER between Jordan and Israel say it in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, and Israelis believe it. "Welcome to Jordan". Wearing yarmulkes and clutching Hebrew language guidebooks on Jordan and freshly-stamped Israeli passports, people from all over the Jewish state, once Jordan's bitter enemy, are combing the Hashemite kingdom's historic treasures and shops in search of discovery and ...