A student exchange program between Egypt and Israel began Sunday night with the arrival of 60 Egyptian high school students. A similar group of Israeli students is scheduled to visit Egypt next month. Jalam Alam, director general of Egypt’s Supreme Youth Council, told reporters at Ben Gurion Airport, that the program will “give the young people of both countries the opportunity to discuss now the people in this region can live in peace.”
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