Israeli police say they are investigating allegations of a secret
price-fixing arrangement by companies who organise the trips for high-school students
to former Nazi death camps, such as Auschwitz. Nine executives at Israeli travel
agencies have been arrested and bank accounts frozen.
When the Israeli education ministry approached a number of
different companies, it received identical quotes. The collusion was aimed at
artificially inflating prices.
Thousands of Israeli high school students travel to
memorials at World War Two death camps every year. A trip can cost several
thousand shekels per student. For many Israeli high-school students a visit to
the site of the Nazi death camps in southern Poland is a rite of passage which
gives them a direct sense of connection to the Holocaust.
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