Just a week after US congressmen pressed Israeli officials to provide sufficient electricity to Gaza’s sewage treatment plant, Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said that the country is committed to meeting the facility’s increasing needs.
A major crossing point between Gaza and Israel is set to reopen for the first time in nine years, the Israeli government announced Wednesday.
The World Bank 2016 Edition of World Development Indicators reports that extreme poverty was cut in half from 1.4 billion to 700 million over the last decade.
Hillary Clinton’s handpicked World Bank president oversees a Bank that is being accused of systemic racism by a former employee and by a civil-rights leader who works for Jesse Jackson.
The World Bank is looking to Israel for advice on how to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, and recently completed a mission to the Jewish state to study what policies can be copied.
JAFFA, Israel – Gaza Premier and Hamas’ deputy diplomatic leader Ismail Haniyeh came under fire over the weekend for saying that life in Gaza is “good.”
Haaretz reports: Ilan Goldfajn, an Israeli-born economist with an acknowledged career in both the public and private sectors, was confirmed Tuesday as president of Brazil’s Central Bank.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Paris Protocol has to be amended to halt the annual loss of $285 million to the PA, the World Bank said in a report it issued Sunday in advance of Tuesday’s meeting in Brussels of the
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan will get a cheap $100 million loan to help create 100,000 jobs for Syrian refugees and its own citizens, the World Bank president said Sunday. The long-term loan, almost interest free, is part of an
JERUSALEM (AP) — A narrow country road outside Jerusalem has turned into a new battleground between Israel and the European Union (EU), deepening a dispute between the allies over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. The EU is financing
