Israel-Arab Economic Cooperation in Jordan

(Ynet News) Sever Plocker - A project was founded in Jordan by a group of Israeli farmers who had been evacuated from the Gush Katif settlements as part of the 2005 Gaza disengagement. They cultivate organic vegetables, relying on hundreds of Muslim workers - many of them refugees from Syria - and then export the produce to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, and to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.


2016-06-02 00:00:00

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