The agreement was made possible after the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, expropriated the handling of the negotiations from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and transferred it to the Minister of Justice, Tzipi Livni, who even signed it in front of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Catherine Ashton.
The State of Israel and the European Union reached an agreement last night that will allow Israel to participate in the Horizon 2020 scientific research and development framework program. The agreement, signed by the parties, makes it clear that any Israeli entity that operates in the areas of the Green Line will be able to apply for funding from the program, even if it has a branch in the settlements. As for the very status of the settlements and their participation in the program, the parties actually agreed to disagree. Each of them will attach an annex to the agreement in which they will express their views on the subject: the European Union will write that it will implement its policy, which prohibits allocating funds to them, while the government will write that it opposes the European position or any directives on this matter - whether legal or political. It was also agreed that ways will be examined to ensure that the money from Horizon 2020 will not be invested in settlements in any way.
The agreement was made possible after the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, expropriated the handling of the negotiations from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and transferred it to the Minister of Justice, Tzipi Livni, who even signed it in front of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Catherine Ashton.
The government ministers agreed before signing the agreement that the state will compensate settlers who will be harmed as a result of the European boycott. However, according to Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel, the chairman of the MOLMP, he said in reference to the concern that researchers at universities inside the Green Line who live in neighborhoods beyond the Green Line: "The wording of the annex that the Europeans will attach will exclude them by dealing with institutions and not people. It is true that the money that comes from the settlements will not be used, it is true that a university that received European money will not be able to invest even a penny in the territories, but it is not about the settlers themselves."
He is not moved by the fact that the price of participation in Horizon 2020 is significantly higher than the cost of the current program. "In any case, we get more than we give, so the price is not the main point," he added.
Yesterday, before signing the agreement, Prof. Ben Israel said "If Horizon 2020 does not come to fruition, Israeli science will go back decades." Today he says that the agreement that was signed is a "great relief for Israeli science." All that remains now is to focus on science."
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To someone - yes, and you also forgot to mention all kinds of propaganda about evolution, insinuations that the earth is allegedly more than 5000 years old and other propaganda against studies of numerology and stars. If only it were possible to straighten out the science a little and adjust it, just a few small corrections...
It's a shame for the website that used to be excellent and dealt only with science and now, probably because of donations from leftist elements, half of its topics are political propaganda from the left against ultra-Orthodox, Israel and Zionists and propaganda about global warming.
Good news for us and for the Europeans, by the way there was no compromise here, the Europeans got everything they wanted and this is their right for better or for worse,
They can also decide not to cooperate with countries that start with the letter Y, we are not even part of the Union so we have nothing to complain about.
The right-wing customs scattered smoke and mirrors in order to please their color and create the impression that there was some kind of compromise here..
A hypothetical situation - in which Israel is not accepted into the European program. Then the state would have to initiate research and projects if countries are progressing, and of course also increase the budget for research. So that Israeli science does not have to go back many years. These are strategic planning for a long period.