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of too long ago, the idea
would have been unthink-
able: A student walking
into a university in Israel
and exiting into Jordan.
Now that promises to become a
reality, with plans under way to devela
op a joint Israeli-Jordanian university
extending on both sides of the border
between the two countries.
Seeking to enhance the cause of
peace and the prospects for economic
development in the area, Touro
College, a Jewish-sponsored institu-
tion of higher education based in the
United States, announced it is work-
ing with the two governments to
develop a school of business and agri-
culture in the central Arava, a region
between the Dead and the Red Seas.
"Establishing an educational insti-
tution in a no-man's-land between
Israel and Jordan" is "a kind of historic
event in the building of close relations
between two brothers and two neigh-
bors," said Bernard Lander, president
of Touro College, which has 10,000 sol
students enrolled on its campuses in
New York, California, Israel and
Russia.
The project, which has been
endorsed by Israel's infrastructure
minister, Ariel Sharon, and Jordan's
minister of water and irrigation,
Munther Haddadin, aims to help eco-
nomic development in the Arava.
A largely desolate area with populel
tions of less than 2,500 on each side
of the border, the central Arava has
failed to keep pace with the scientific,
technological and economic advances
in other parts of Israel and Jordan.
Supporters of the project say it will
help serve the needs of the region by
establishing an academically rich and
culturally diverse community that can
function as a source of skilled man-
innovative agricultural and
industrial research.
"Just visualize what could be
achieved if, on both sides of the bor-
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der, this hot desert could bloom,
Lander said. "Thousands of individu-
als could bring prosperity to Jordan
and to Israel."
Beyond its practical impact, sup 4.4
porters also believe the project can
help strengthen the 1994 Israeli-
Jordanian peace treaty.
"The more we will have joint ven-
tures of this kind, the more peace in
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