Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. ambassador to Israel will sign amended scientific cooperation agreements at a "special ceremony" in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Wednesday, Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
The revised agreements "will expand scientific cooperation between Israel and the United States to Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights," the Israeli statement said, using the biblical names for the West Bank.