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(IsraelNN.com) Businessmen from Arab countries that have no relations with Israel are planning to visit Jenin on Friday for a three-day investors' conference. The Israeli government is preparing special procedures to facilitate the businessmen's passage at the Allenby Bridge crossing at the Jordanian border.

Among those attending are investors from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Proposed investments include factories in two industrial zones to be built in Jericho and at the separation barrier west of Gush Etzion and Kiryat-Arba-Hevron.