(Ynet News) Daniel Edelson - The Israeli Center in Cairo has been in place for almost 30 years, but Egyptian visitors say they have been harassed by the country's authorities. After his first visit to the center, Hussein Baker, 20, a fourth-year Hebrew student at Menoufia University, was accosted by a member of the Egyptian security service who asked him why he had visited the center, who he met there, and what he thought about Israel. A week later, Baker's girlfriend received a phone call from another security officer who asked about her boyfriend's political opinions. Then he received a phone call from the Israeli Center about an upcoming screening of a film. Several minutes later he received a call from an Egyptian officer who warned him: "Don't visit the center again." "I was so scared that I told him I would not visit the center anymore." This brought to an end "my dreams of normalization and peace."
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