Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian officials met to discuss the creation of a high-tech industrial park on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. As a first step, organizers plan to build a high-tech college at the site within two years. Israeli and Palestinian officials recently opened an industrial park, which offers primarily blue-collar manufacturing jobs, at the Karni Crossing between Israel and Gaza.
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