Industrialists talk peace. (Israeli businessman Teva Pharmaceuticals President Eli Hurvitz,...

"If peace were dependent on industrialists, it would have already been achieved," declares a recent article in the daily Yedioth Ahronoth business section. The newspaper arranged a meeting of Teva Pharmaceuticals President Eli Hurvitz and Othman El-Halak, a prominent Palestinian businessman who established the first pharmaceutical plant in the West Bank. The two discussed the prospect of economic and political harmony between Jews and Palestinians. They agreed that a key ingredient for peace is a focus on practical economic solutions.

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