Olmert: "For the first time - Israeli exports will be greater than Israeli imports"

Israeli Prime Minister predicted that for the first time in 60 years, Israeli exports will be greater than Israeli imports. Olmert's predictions stand in contradiction to announcement made last Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics
 
Speaking at the cornerstone ceremony for Intel's new development center in Haifa, Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, predicted last week that for the first time in 60 years, Israeli exports will be greater than Israeli imports this year.exports, according to Olmert,"will be some $6 billion greater than imports this year".
 
Olmert's predictions stand in contradiction to announcement made last Sunday by the
Central Bureau of Statistics which announced that imports of goods in the first ten months of 2006 reached $32.3 billion, while exports reached a much lower $25.1 billion.
 
Economists however noted that the PM meant that exports of goods and services together will be greater than imports. Economists noted,however, that in the last two years in 2004 & 2005 the exports of goods and services together was greater than imports.