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Article: Israeli Businesses Sidestepping Arab Resistance to Trade
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Dov Hoch
Forward
10-27-1995
Israeli Businesses Sidestepping Arab Resistance to Trade.
AMMAN -- When the long-awaited Amman Economic Summit, widely billed as "Casablanca II," meets here next week, Israel's annual Jerusalem Business Conference will convene in competition a two hours' drive away.
A colossal blunder in timing?
Not at all, say Israeli sources. The Jerusalem conference, they claim, was deliberately scheduled as a consolation prize for Israeli businessmen barred from the Amman summit by strict quotas.
Although hundreds of Israeli businessmen have applied via Israel's Manufacturers' Association to attend, its organizer, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, has pruned the Israeli ...