The Finance Committee dealing with the construction of the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Particle Accelerator met in Amman, on November 7 and 8, 2005

A WTO working group approved last week the final package of Saudi Arabia's entry terms, to be discussed at a meeting of the body's ruling General Council on 11 November. The approval followed over ten years of continuous negotiations

British rock star Phil Collins the former Genesis drummer and solo singer played last Monday night at the Tel Aviv's Bloomfield stadium in front of a crowd of some 15,000 fans

US Trade Representative Robert Portman said last week that the US and Saudi Arabia had concluded negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement that will enable Saudi Arabia to join the World Trade Organization (WTO)

The latest report issued last week by the World Economic Forum, on Global Competitiveness, ranks Israel in nineteenth place among 104 countries. Israel advanced in the present report one place higher from its rank of 20th in 2003's report

In a major step to further opening the Israeli economy to outside competition, the Director General of the Ministry of Trade & Industry, issued, on July 12th,a decree to temporarily abolish the need to gain an import license for goods imported from the f