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The historic power station in Naharayim. (Ancho Gosh / Jini) Last update - 06:27 14/05/2008 Israeli, Jordanian architects plan peace park in Naharayim By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Jordan, Israel  A six-day international design workshop in architecture on Tuesday opened at Naharayim. It is part of the preparation for the proposed Jordan River Peace Park. The participants are faculty and students from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, together with Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli architects. Friends of the Earth Middle East is behind the initiative, which seeks to extend the development on the Israeli side of the site to the Jordanian side to create a a transborder protected area in which both Israelis and Jordanians will be able to cross the river from either side without the need for a visa. Visitors will not, however, be able to continue on to the rest of either country without a visa. T Advertisement he site is 10 kilometers south of the southern tip of Lake Kinneret, at the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan rivers. The park area will include the former Rutenberg hydroelectric power station and the Three Bridges site. The name refers to the still extant 2,000-year-old Roman bridge, an Ottoman Railway bridge and a British Mandate road bridge over the Jordan. "Sixty years after the hydroelectric power plant was destroyed in the 1948 war, almost to the day, a historic event designed to help advance a cross-border peace park on both banks of the River Jordan will take place," said Munqeth Mehyar, the Jordanian director of Friends of the Earth Middle East. "The goal of the event is to develop ideas on how to recreate a wetland from the dry lake bed into a bird sanctuary, convert the old power station into a visitors center, the old workers' homes into eco-lodges and renovate the bridges so they can be used again," he added. "The park has the support of the local Jordanian and Israeli authorities as it is designed not only as the first step toward the rehabilitation of the near dry River Jordan, but as a means to generate much needed income for the communities on both sides of the river," said Gidon Bromberg, Mehyar's Israeli counterpart. Related articles: Friends of the Earth planning 'peace park' across the Jordan Israel, PA, Jordan agree to build joint agro-industrial park in West Bank Bookmark to del.icio.us   A few good celebs Some of Hollywood's top guns congratulate Israel in a clip played in Times Square. Chosen, shmosen 'Religion is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,' wrote Albert Einstein.   1.   One more unrestricted target for Jihadi suicide bombers 06:41  |  Genuine Tosefta 14/05/08   2.   Until next shot... 09:55  |  Alex 14/05/08   3.   This is great news 11:00  |  A mother 14/05/08   4.   Great ! With Jewish money and Arab brains the sky is the limit! 22:09  |  Ahmad 14/05/08

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