At that time, then the most of Afghanistan involved in a war action between forces of NATO and not quite dead Taliban, in Balkh province for over ten years, remains relatively calm.
The province is located in the north of the country, near the border with Uzbekistan, and is inhabited mainly by Afghan Uzbeks. Balkh is patrimony of the Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who enjoys the protection from the northern neighbor in Tashkent. In the provincial
center of Mazar-i-Sharif industry operates, more or less normally transportation works on time, commerce is well established, and even some tourist services present for occasional rear tourists. It is only province which has steady number of Israeli entrepreneurs which risk doing business in a constantly war-torn Afghanistan. One of the first came in late 1990 - early 2000's via former USSR countries. All of the Israeli businessmen holders of dual citizenships and, in addition to Israel's documents (which in Afghanistan, of course, do not advisable to show), are the holders, of Russian or Kazakh passport. Israelis visiting Balkh every few months, but most of the time they are housed in the neighboring republics of Central Asia, or in Israel. In Afghanistan, they have created joint ventures, officially registered as the Kazakh-Afghan and Uzbek-Afghan joint companies. Most of the time, they are food industries, in some cases they are used an Israeli technologies to do business in Balkh. Local security authorities, in some cases, aware of the fact that these "Kazakh" and "Russian" businesses are in fact the Israelis but, for regular "modest fee", Balkh’s authority have a blind eye for "Afghani Zionists."
The province is located in the north of the country, near the border with Uzbekistan, and is inhabited mainly by Afghan Uzbeks. Balkh is patrimony of the Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who enjoys the protection from the northern neighbor in Tashkent. In the provincial
center of Mazar-i-Sharif industry operates, more or less normally transportation works on time, commerce is well established, and even some tourist services present for occasional rear tourists. It is only province which has steady number of Israeli entrepreneurs which risk doing business in a constantly war-torn Afghanistan. One of the first came in late 1990 - early 2000's via former USSR countries. All of the Israeli businessmen holders of dual citizenships and, in addition to Israel's documents (which in Afghanistan, of course, do not advisable to show), are the holders, of Russian or Kazakh passport. Israelis visiting Balkh every few months, but most of the time they are housed in the neighboring republics of Central Asia, or in Israel. In Afghanistan, they have created joint ventures, officially registered as the Kazakh-Afghan and Uzbek-Afghan joint companies. Most of the time, they are food industries, in some cases they are used an Israeli technologies to do business in Balkh. Local security authorities, in some cases, aware of the fact that these "Kazakh" and "Russian" businesses are in fact the Israelis but, for regular "modest fee", Balkh’s authority have a blind eye for "Afghani Zionists."
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