Environmental research center planned for Israel-Jordan border
BY MARK SHWARTZ

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In an effort to encourage scientific collaboration between Arab and Israeli students, the governments of Jordan and Israel have agreed to set aside 150 acres along their border for the construction of a major environmental research center that will be operated in collaboration with Stanford University and Cornell University.

Groundbreaking for the new Bridging the Rift Center will take place March 9 in a remote section of arid land along the Israeli-Jordanian border about 50 miles south of the Dead Sea. When construction is completed in three to five years, this small piece of desert will be transformed into a thriving science and technology village dedicated to studying the unique ecology of the Dead Sea region. The high-tech center will symbolically straddle the border so that half of the facility is in Israel and half is in Jordan.

Full Article (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/march3/rift-33.html)

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beautiful! Both the project and what it means for Israeli-Arab relations.

MAzal tov for the initiative and the nice structure :)

super awesome... let's hoping for the peace between Jews and Arabs