A survey conducted at the Bir Zeit University north of Ramallah indicates that 90% of Palestinian youth now support suicide attacks. Within the general Palestinian population, support for suicide attacks stands at about 75% - a 50% increase in recent months...
Express electric train service from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is planned. Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh announced today that a new 56-kilometer route will be paved via Modiin and Ben Gurion International Airport, at a cost of 2.5 billion shekels (roughly $600 million). Six million passengers are expected to use the service during the first year of operation. Sneh said that the old Tel Aviv-Jerusalem route, through Beit Shemesh and Ramle, will also be upgraded...
Israel and Bulgaria signed last week a free trade agreement according to which quotas in effect on trade between the two countries will be gradually phased out by the year 2004. Bulgaria will enjoy tariff reductions on its agricultural exports to Israel, while Israel will benefit on its exports of animals, flowers, and more. The annual volume of trade between the two countries stands at $43.1 million, most of it from Bulgaria to Israel...
Express electric train service from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is planned. Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh announced today that a new 56-kilometer route will be paved via Modiin and Ben Gurion International Airport, at a cost of 2.5 billion shekels (roughly $600 million). Six million passengers are expected to use the service during the first year of operation. Sneh said that the old Tel Aviv-Jerusalem route, through Beit Shemesh and Ramle, will also be upgraded...
Israel and Bulgaria signed last week a free trade agreement according to which quotas in effect on trade between the two countries will be gradually phased out by the year 2004. Bulgaria will enjoy tariff reductions on its agricultural exports to Israel, while Israel will benefit on its exports of animals, flowers, and more. The annual volume of trade between the two countries stands at $43.1 million, most of it from Bulgaria to Israel...