Bridging the Rift -- Scientific Cooperation between Israel and Jordan

Bridging the Rift is a project designed to develop scientific collaborations between scholars from Jordan and Israel. Over the past three years scholars from five Jordanian universities and all the Israeli universities have participated in research together. The fields of emphasis are Microbiology and Ecology. Joint field trips, research planning meetings, and laboratory studies have already been carried out. A physical institution spanning the Israeli-Jordanian border is planned as the home of this long-term collaboration.