The Jewish state has in recent years seen an influx of Muslim pilgrims, though the Israeli media does not report much on this phenomenon. In the last eight years, over 500,000 tourists from Indonesia, Malaysia, Jordan, the Gulf States and other Arab countries have traveled to Israel. As a result of the crisis with Iran, the predominantly Sunni countries and the State of Israel have been drawing closer to one other, which has...

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