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Semi-annual Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting puts Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials in same room with international representatives, with Palestinians saying economies of PA and Israel are directly intertwined

After 37 tour guides from Bethlehem denied work in Israel, Raanan Carmon decided to advocate for these apolitical, talented individuals to pursue their careers despite opposition from Israeli officials citing pandemic curbs as excuse

Emilie Moatti, head of the Knesset's subcommittee on foreign affairs, is busily planning meetings on advancing cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.

High inflation, dwindling donor aid and Israel’s withholding of vital tax funds squeezing PA’s already decimated budget.

Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai and Jordan’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Yousef Al-Shamali met on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea on Wednesday, the first such meeting in a decade. The two officials discussed a variety of ways to strengthen economic ties between the two countries, as “part of the effort to…

With Palestinians excluded from financial services and unable to achieve independence in the fiat system, the country needs Bitcoin.

Jordan to receive 50 mln cubic meters of water from Israel Xinhua 09 Jul 2021, 05:18 GMT+10 AMMAN, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Israel on Thursday agreed to offer Jordan 50 million cubic meters of additionally purchased water, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. During a meeting between Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid on the Jordanian side of the King Hussein Bridge, an agreement was also completed within the Paris Protocol, accor...

Freige will head the Israeli contingent on the committee, but it isn’t yet known who the Palestinians on the committee will be. This committee, known as the Joint Economic Committee, is not a new concept; it was agreed to by Israel and the PA in 1994, as part of the Paris Protocol, the economic annex to the Oslo Accords. Back then it was decided that the committee would comprise an equal number of Israelis and Palestinians and each side would have the right to convene the panel to oversee or ...

Psagot Winery, outside of Ramallah in the West Bank. (Photo: David Kattenburg) In what might best be described as a “very cautious” decision (at least one Palestine-friendly lawyer considers it a victory), today (May 5), the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) dismissed the Trudeau government’s appeal of a lower court ruling that ‘Product of Israel’ labels on Israeli settlement wines are “false, misleading and deceptive,” all the while sending the labeling issue back to ...

Injured and Abandoned: Palestinian Workers Demand Fairer Treatment Palestinian workers force Israeli firm to pledge fairer treatment When Khalil Shehab first began working for Yamit, an Israeli water filtration company in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial park in 1995, he did not anticipate that he would become a pioneer in the fight for equal labor rights. The industrial zone, just inside the occupied West Bank and next to Tulkarm city, was set up as part of the Oslo agreement between Israel an...