Microsoft’s CEO will visit Israel in May.
Steve Ballmer will make his second visit to the Jewish state to open Microsoft’s new research and development center in Herzliya Pituach, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. He had visited Israel in 2004.
Microsoft Israel is becoming a strategic arm of the company’s holdings, according to Globes.
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill praising Israel on its 60th anniversary.
The nonbinding resolution introduced this month by U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has as co-sponsors the Democratic and Republican leaderships in the House.
The bill “recognizes the historic significance of the 60th anniversary of the re-establishment of the sovereign and independent State of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people,” reinforcing the trend recently in the Bush administration and Congress to emphasize Israel’s status as a Jewish state.
That trend reflects the Israeli government’s determination to face down Palestinian refugee claims as it heads into final-status peace talks.
The resolution, which is under consideration by the Foreign Affairs Committee, has 122 co-sponsors thus far.
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