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Poor Israeli PR has seen the EU enforce new rules on science funding, but EU states compensated Israel with a UN gift. Under the funding deal, the EU and Israel will shortly sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Israel’s participation in the Union’s “Horizon 2020” research program. The grants will be governed by new EU guidelines, which say Israeli firms and institutions cannot spend a cent of EU money on activity in occupied Palestinian land. …

Israel warned on Wednesday that it might shun a key EU research program unless a compromise is found over the bloc’s guidelines which boycott Israeli entities operating beyond the Green Line. Israel’s position was spelled out at a meeting with the European Union on the Jewish state’s participation in Horizon 2020, the bloc’s six-year funding plan for research and innovation, the foreign ministry said, according to AFP. … Horizon 2020 aims “to de-pollute the Mediterranean by the year 2020 by tackling the sources of pollution that account for around 80% of the overall pollution of the Mediterranean Sea: municipal waste,...