US lifts funding ban on Israeli research in West Bank, Golan

The United States on Wednesday removed restrictions on funding for Israeli research in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights, scrapping a policy in place since the 1970s. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the “huge significance” of the move that came less than a week before the US presidential election. President Donald Trump, who Netanyahu has hailed as Israel’s strongest ever ally in the White House, has recognised Israeli…