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American rap star says Seedo’s Home Grow Device allows “all people to benefit from agricultural technologies.”
The Island of Peace in Naharayim in northern Israel on the border with Jordan on March 31, 2017. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.
Israeli farmland set to be handed back to Jordan
Following Amman’s refusal to extend a lease included in the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, Israel may soon have to return 247 acres of agricultural land to the Hashemite Kingdom.
“We have committed to making Israel a ‘brain gain’ country for students and researchers from around the world—North and South America, Europe and Asia,” said Professor Yaffa Zilbershats, chair of the Council for Higher Education in Israel’s Planning and Budgeting Committee.
The city, which researchers say dates back 5,000 years and was home to 6,000 residents, marked the beginning of urbanization in the Land of Israel and changes what was previously known about Canaanite era.
Israeli security forces detain 13 as rioters hurled rocks, firebombs at IDF jeeps • Palestinian media reports that PFLP member Walid Muhammad Hanatsheh has been taken into custody.
Israel has quietly increased the number of permits issued to Gazans in exchange for fewer rocket attacks and border demonstrations, Palestinian Authority officials tell foreign media.
Motivated primarily by its own commercial interests, France is choosing to ignore the words and actions of Iran’s IRGC, and instead blindly trust Tehran’s “moderate” leadership.
The two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation in the areas of agriculture, water, irrigation, health, science and technology, and the economy, and expressed interest in examining additional cooperation in cyber security, telecommunication, space science and technology.
Israeli-Palestinian business cooperation in Judea and Samaria “is just getting its legs,” says Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), and “will become a very useful force in this country.”
“It’s only natural that our two development agencies work together. After all, we very much share the same vision,” said U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator Mark Green.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a historic visit to Chad, a Muslim-majority country, earlier this year where he announced the re-establishment of ties.
The Israeli prime minister and Ukrainian president agree to increase investment and expand cooperation on technology, education, agriculture, culture and sports.