Israel and Jordan welcomed the announcement of plans to establish a joint college in the Jordan Rift Valley. Touro College, a private institution in the United States, said it is building a school of business and agriculture in the Central Arava region that will extend on both sides of the Israeli-Jordanian border. U.S. Rep Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.), who joined with Israeli, Jordanian and Touro college officials in announcing the venture at a Capitol Hill news conference, said the new campus “will mark a new, impressive demonstration of the cooperative and creative potential that awaits the blooming of the Middle East.”
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