(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman plans to ask the cabinet to triple the budget for Mashav, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation, Yediot Ahronot reports. Israel's new membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) stipulates a significant increase in its foreign aid to the Third World. Israel plans to send hundreds of experts in agriculture, water, and irrigation to underdeveloped states in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as experts on alternative energy, public health, education, and internal security. Prior to the Yom Kippur War, Israel was considered a foreign aid powerhouse, sending thousands of experts to aid Africa, but following the war, many African countries severed ties with Israel and the experts returned home.
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