As evidence mounts that China hid the initial outbreak in Wuhan, the question for Israel is whether it will be convinced—or forced—to scale back ties as tensions with America escalate.
UK-Israel trade is booming and bilateral relations expanding in multiple areas; new accelerator launched to promote Israeli autotech startups in China; and more!
“We can turn Israel into a leader in the field of environmental technology, just as we succeeded in doing in the field of high-tech,” Minister Elkin enthused.
The prime minister’s traveling entourage included Environmental Protection Minister Zeev Elkin; Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen; Science, Technology and Space Minister Ofir Akunis; Health Minister Yaakov Litzman ,and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel.
Over 1,000 Chinese investors and strategic partners, as well as 500 Israeli high-tech companies and entrepreneurs from a variety of fields such as agriculture, clean technology, mobile and Web and medicine will gather in Tel Aviv in September to discuss further collaboration and investment.
So far in 2016, at least 5,700 Coptic Orthodox Christians have traveled from Egypt to Israel; Israel and China have signed seven academic cooperation agreements with Chinese universities, and much more.
While enemies of the Jewish state promote Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Israel – world renown for its cutting-edge innovation – continues to forge meaningful alliances and trade agreements around the world, this time with China.
California is still facing a huge water crisis and has turned to Israel for advice, and Israel Aerospace Industries has built a new communications satellite, weighing only 1.5-2 tons - less than half a regular communications satellite.