President Bush will attend a conference in Jerusalem next week
along with Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Rupert Murdoch and
the founders of Google and Facebook
Israel is marking its 60th Independence Day, which began at sundown Wednesday
srael at 60 is a paradox of exuberance and despair: a country
enduring near daily rocket attacks from militants while producing scientists who
have pioneered Wi-Fi and instant messaging
Peres, a Nobel Peace laureate, promotes Israel as a "green" country and a high-tech powerhouse, including a government plan to install the world's first electric car network by 2011.
"We are small in size, small in numbers, so we cannot become a big market or a big industry," Peres told The Associated Press. "But Israel can become a daring laboratory."
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