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Intellectual
Property Theft, Fraud.
Ha'aretz [Israeli
newspaper], June 22, 2001
"In 1998, an American delegation visited Israel to investigate the
issue and found Israel to be 'an international center for pirate distribution'
- estimating that the extent of the forgery industry reached tens, maybe
hundreds, of millions of dollars. The U.S. delegation threatened to impose
sanctions against Israel by increasing duty tax for Israeli exports to
the United States. The delegation also noted that the Israeli forgery
industry has grown in recent years because of the infiltration of organized
crime."
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