JLTV Sports Department: Important Announcement

MAJOR US TOUR OPERATOR CANCELS DUBAI TOUR PROGRAMS

Encino, CA, February 16, 2009 - One of America's largest tour operators, New York-based IsramWorld, has cancelled its tour programs to Dubai. This was announced today in the wake of the United Arab Emirates' decision to deny a visa to Israeli tennis player, Shahar Peer, to participate in the Dubai Tennis Championships.

"The UAE's action is an odious act of political bigotry, A. Ady Gelber, president and CEO of IsramWorld told JLTV, a leading U.S. tour operator for more than four decades and a member of USTOA (the United States Tour Operators' Association). Gelber continued, "... it reveals that despite its massive investment in tourism infrastructure, Dubai appears not ready to be a member of the world tourism family."

IsramWorld offers tours and packages to 56 countries on five continents. In the wake of the Camp David Accords it was one of the first U.S. tour operators to offer a diverse program of tours to Egypt, and in 1994 it began offering tours to Jordan, "I am deeply disappointed in the UAE's decision, one that seems to spell a return to the grim dark days of division and discrimination," observed Gelber.

The Dubai Tennis Championships are sponsored by Barclays, Britain's fourth-biggest bank that in 2008 acquired the assets of failed US investment bank, Lehman Brothers. According to a report in today's New York Times, when U.S. tennis champion, Venus Williams, learned of Peer's visa denial she said, "All the players support Shahar, we are all athletes, and we stand for tennis."

Peer and her family urged the Women's Tennis Association not to cancel the tournament because of the incident but, the New York Times took an unusually strong position in its article on the controversy, saying:
" There is always going to be international conflict, and athletes in the middle. But they can't be abandoned there when there is a choice. Tennis should finish its business in the gulf this month, and say bye-bye, Dubai."

JLTV is the exclusive broadcast partner for the Maccabiah Games in 2009 in Israel. It sports department is headed up by Mitch Gaylord, Olympic and Maccabiah gold medalist in gymnastics. "America's Chosen Network," as JLTV has been coined, operates across America, and soon in Canada. In New York JLTV is located on channel 120, Time Warner Cable, between the Golf and Soap channels.