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| Auschwitz price-fixing claims: Israel police arrest nine | |
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| Nine executives at Israeli travel agencies have been arrested on suspicion of fixing the price of high school students' trips to former Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz. | Nine executives at Israeli travel agencies have been arrested on suspicion of fixing the price of high school students' trips to former Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz. |
| Police say they are investigating allegations of a secret price-fixing arrangement by companies who organise the trips for students. | Police say they are investigating allegations of a secret price-fixing arrangement by companies who organise the trips for students. |
| Investigators have raided the homes of executives and frozen bank accounts. | Investigators have raided the homes of executives and frozen bank accounts. |
| At least six travel agencies are accused of violating competition rules. | At least six travel agencies are accused of violating competition rules. |
| They are suspected of colluding on prices before responding to an education ministry tender to take students to Holocaust memorials. | They are suspected of colluding on prices before responding to an education ministry tender to take students to Holocaust memorials. |
| When the Israeli education ministry approached a number of different companies, it received identical quotes. | When the Israeli education ministry approached a number of different companies, it received identical quotes. |
| Reports say the alleged collusion was aimed at artificially inflating prices. | Reports say the alleged collusion was aimed at artificially inflating prices. |
| Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp | |
| Why did ordinary people commit atrocities in the Holocaust? | |
| The Holocaust year by year | |
| 'Shock' | 'Shock' |
| 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 (1,000 shekels is worth £177), according to reports in Israeli media. | 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 (1,000 shekels is worth £177), according to reports in Israeli media. |
| The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Jerusalem, says that 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 - the defining tragedy of modern Jewish history. | The BBC's Kevin Connolly, in Jerusalem, says that 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 - the defining tragedy of modern Jewish history. |
| If the allegations are proved to be true, our correspondent adds, there will be shock in Israel that a form of tourism that is viewed with great solemnity may have been the subject of illegal business practices. | If the allegations are proved to be true, our correspondent adds, there will be shock in Israel that a form of tourism that is viewed with great solemnity may have been the subject of illegal business practices. |
| Some six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, mainly in death camps in Poland. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz alone. | Some six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, mainly in death camps in Poland. More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz alone. |