Jordan has played an active role in facilitating the export of $1 billion worth of Israeli food products to Middle Eastern and Persian Gulf countries, Agriculture Minister Avraham Katz-Oz disclosed Sunday.
Israeli sales of fresh and partially processed food to Arab countries amounts to about 10 percent of Israel’s total agricultural exports, he said.
Katz-Oz confirmed the Jordanian role during a meeting of the Middle East Economic Entrepreneurs Club in Tel Aviv. He called it an example of the practical ways in which Israel and Jordan are cooperating, even though the two nations are technically still at war.
Katz-Oz, a Labor minister, said that there is regular communication and coordination between the two countries and that decision-makers from both sides meet regularly to discuss ways of improving commercial ties regarding food exports.
He said that for the past two years the two countries have agreed on production quotas for the West Bank. Israel has even provided Jordan with aerial photographs of crop areas in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, he said.
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