Millennium Special
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Feature Articles

Census and Sensibilities
By Abraham Rabinovich
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1999 - "It would have been very difficult in 1900 to predict that by the year 2000 there would be a state of Israel and that the 50,000 Jews living in Palestine would have grown to 5.1 million."
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A father's message
By Judy Labensohn
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1999 - When Father Robert Fortin uses the word resurrection, he's not always talking about Jesus.
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It's Not TW0,000 Late
By Sam Orbaum
Get ready: Tomorrow we wake up to... January 1, 1800.
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The Holy Land's millennium
By Barry Davis
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1999 - Will the year 2000 be a success or a colossal failure for the Israeli tourism industry? The answer depends on whom you ask.
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Mixed emotions: Some Israelis uneasy about tourism wave
By Larry Derfner
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999 - Already for weeks before the millennium, Jerusalem's Old City was filled with Christian tour groups.
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Tourism on the rise, despite bottlenecks at entrances
By Haim Shapiro
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1999 - The local tourism industry, which had been on the decline since the peak year of 1995, now seems to be looking up, according to Avi Ella, president of the Hotel Association.
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Tourism authorities voice cautious optimism over year 2000
By Herb Keinon
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1999 - It may be some time before the book on millennial tourism to the Holy Land can be written, but it is already possible to pen a title for the first chapter: 'The amazing tale of shrinking expectations.'
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The Media is the Millennium
By Barry Davis
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1999 - Just in case anyone had any ideas of spending the Great Event of the Millennium on their own, forget it.
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