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'Silicon Wadi': UAE Firms Touted To Join Israeli Tech Project In East Jerusalem
'Silicon Wadi': UAE Firms Touted To Join Israeli Tech Project In East Jerusalem
Via Middle East Eye
The Israeli-run municipality of Jerusalem has recruited companies from the United Arab Emirates to invest in a modern industrial park, called Silicon Wadi, in the city's occupied east. However Palestinian urban planning experts have told Middle East Eye that the plans and the UAE's involvement has been kept unusually under wraps.
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Israel's deputy mayor of Jerusalem, told Makor Rishon newspaper that "Jerusalem's branding in the UAE is very strong. They are very excited...
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