He was born in Argentina and now lives in Israel. Rav Shach's scathing denunciation of Yeshiva students serving in Tzahal, God's partner in preserving Israel, and Rav O. Yosef's scathing denunciation of national religious public schools, which did and do so much to raise young Israelis, especially Sfardim, to function as religious Jews in the modern world. A FREE people, tho a necessary prerequisite to A HOLY people, isn't our ultimate goal. Both Jerusalem and Israel have grand development plans to make the city and country even more appealing to both foreign and local tourists, featuring everything from improved street lighting to thousands of additional hotel rooms and restaurants.
Most people come to Israel primarily for Jerusalem.
Israelis would come too. My impression was that Baram and most of those in the tourist industry are interested only in balance sheets, not in the moral and Judaic effects of their projects, e.g. the influence of Christian missionaries and amoral wandering Western youth upon Israel's Jewishness. This is self-destructive, for a cheap secular Israel will not attract those whom we most wish to attract. A beautiful national shabbat, with tourists invited to traditional Israeli homes, may turn out to be both Israel's biggest tourist attraction, and that which will raise the level of Israel's tourists. Sick souls won't enjoy a holy land.