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Yale architects traveled to the Israeli-Jordanian border to work with Jordanian and Palestinian architects and Israeli students from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in an initiative to design the Middle East’s first peace park.
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Yale architects traveled to the Israeli-Jordanian border to work with Jordanian and Palestinian architects and Israeli students from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in an initiative to design the Middle East’s first peace park.

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