Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas will attend a conference in Jordan on Thursday, but are not expected to meet. Aides to the Israeli prime minister said Wednesday that he and the Palestinian Authority president would attend a breakfast for Nobel laureates convening in Petra, but this would not constitute formal talks.
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