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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will negotiate with Jordan an extension of a 25-year lease signed by an Israeli country under a 1994 peace treaty, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Netanyahu, in public statements, said that Jordan wanted to implement its option to terminate the lease and that Israel would "begin negotiations with it on the possibility of extending the current agreement".
Under an annex to the peace agreement, Israel has leased about 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of agricultural land in the southern sector of its border with Jordan, as well as a small area called "The Island of Peace" near the Sea of Galilee.
(Report by Jeffrey Heller, edited by Ori Lewis)
