  A new lattice model of interacting electrons is presented. It can be viewed
as a classical Hubbard model in which the energy associated to electron
itinerance is proportional to the total number of possible electron jumps.
Symmetry properties of the Hubbard model are preserved. In the half-filled band
with strong interaction the model becomes the Ising model. The main features of
the magnetic behavior of the model in the one-dimensional and mean-field cases
are studied.
