{"id":265518,"date":"2020-08-17T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=265518"},"modified":"2020-08-17T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:19:07","slug":"israeli-uae-firms-sign-deal-on-coronavirus-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/17\/israeli-uae-firms-sign-deal-on-coronavirus-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli, UAE firms sign deal on coronavirus research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; float: left; width: 870px;\">\n<div class=\"page-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_262641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262641\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/analysis-2030261_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-262641\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/analysis-2030261_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/analysis-2030261_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/analysis-2030261_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/analysis-2030261_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/analysis-2030261_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the agreement, the companies will cooperate on developing a device that will accelerate knowledge of the virus with high precision. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 In the wake of last week\u2019s controversial normalization deal, a UAE firm and an Israeli company signed a pact to cooperate on research into Covid-19, United Arab Emirates state-run news agency WAM reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">The deal between Emirati APEX National Investment and Israel\u2019s TERA Group is considered an outgrowth of the normalization deal between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">&#8220;The cooperation with TERA Group is the first business to pave the way for trade, economy and effective partnership between the Emirati and Israeli business sector,&#8221; WAM cited Khalifa Yousef Khoury, the head of APEX, as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">Under the agreement, the companies will cooperate on developing a device that will accelerate knowledge of the virus with high precision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">APEX works in the field of public investment, including the health sector, while the TERA Group, found in 2003, works as part of the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science, and has investments in research and development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">The UAE is the first Gulf state and third Arab nation to have full diplomatic relations with Israel after Egypt and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">Despite reports the deal halted Israel\u2019s controversial plan to annex part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his government\u2019s continued commitment to the annexation plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;\">Palestinian groups denounced the deal, saying it does nothing to serve the Palestinian cause and ignores the rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates\u00a0\u2013 In the wake of last week\u2019s controversial normalization deal, a UAE firm and an Israeli &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":262641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265519,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265518\/revisions\/265519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}