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MK Rabbi Margi: It’s Absurd That Israeli Hotels Are Deserted While 50,000 Israelis Are in the UAE
By Yoni Weiss
YERUSHALAYIM -
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 5:02 am | ח טבת תשפ א
A businessman, upon landing in Israel on a flydubai flight, at Ben Gurion International Airport, in November. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
During Tuesday’s meeting of the Economic Affairs Committee on the dire state of domestic tourism while the state is allowing people to travel abroad, Committee Chairman MK Rabbi Yaakov Margi (Shas) said, “It’s absurd that the hotels are deserted while 50,000 Israelis are vacationing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He who [permitted] tens of thousands of tourists to visit a cluster of hotels in Dubai could have allowed himself to prepare an outline for opening a number of hotels in Israel.