Tel aviv: The Israeli government yesterday authorised 1,500 more Jordanians to come and work in its Red Sea resort of Eilat to combat a labour shortage, the tourism ministry said. It said the decision was taken because of the “serious crisis” caused by not enough hotel workers.
The Jordanians would enter Israel to work and go back across the border to Jordan at night once their shift was finished, the ministry said in a statement.
“I am persuaded that this decision will reinforce peace between Israel and Jordan, and help reduce high unemployment in southern Jordan,” it quoted Tourism Minister Uzi Landau as saying. Ministry figures show that some 300 Jordanians currently work in and around the resort, which has about 12,000 hotel rooms.
Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, becoming the second Arab state to do so after Egypt in 1979.
Oman records
44 H1N1 cases
Muscat: Omani Ministry of Health has announced that it recorded 44 cases of H1N1 during the second half of June 2014.
The Ministry of Health said in a statement that the registered cases raged between having minor symptoms that may not need treatment or moderate cases that some of them need follow up at hospital. No new deaths from the virus was recorded this month.
The Ministry dismissed recording any new cases of MERS since last December.Agenceis
