Israeli and Arab officials mingled at the World Economic Forum in Jordan. Israel’s trade minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, chatted with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshair Zebari at the Dead Sea conference Sunday. The meeting produced no immediate diplomatic dividends, but the Baghdad-born Ben-Eliezer passed a message of Israeli goodwill, in Arabic, to the new Iraqi government.
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