A joint U.S.-Israeli economic panel determined that remaining loan guarantees for Israel should be authorized at $1 billion a year over the next three years. The U.S.-Israeli Joint Economic Development Group met Monday in Washington and agreed to seek the loan guarantee funds over the next three years, after Congress extended the deadline for their use until 2008.
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