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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Mubarak, Olmert to meet
Ehud Olmert is scheduled to meet Hosni Mubarak next week.
Olmert aides said Tuesday the prime minister would travel to the Red Sea port of Sharm e-Sheik next week for talks with the Egyptian president, who has played a key mediating role in efforts to retrieve Cpl. Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held hostage in the Gaza Strip.
Olmert recently held his first formal peace summit with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and visited Amman for talks with Jordanian King Abdullah II, spurring speculation that a new peace initiative is in the works.
Israel’s economy on the rise
Israel’s economy rose 12 places in an international listing.
Based on a survey by The Economist, Globes reported that Israel is the world’s 36th largest economy.
The survey graded nations’ economies in 2001-05 as compared with 1980-84, and ranked economies on the basis of their five-year average GDP in current dollars.
Some of the biggest climbers were in Asia: Singapore rose 20 places to No. 39; Taiwan rose 14 places to No. 18; and both South Korea and Hong Kong rose 12 places to Nos. 11 and 30, respectively.
China rose four notches to No. 6, while Venezuela fell 12 places to No. 37.
Iran fell 16 places to 33, and Saudi Arabia dropped from 15th place to 22nd.
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