This piece first appeared in Alert and is reprinted with permission. Today is the 35th anniversary of the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement, the first free trade agreement signed by either country. To mark the occasion, Alert, the publication of the California Chamber of Commerce, interviewed Shlomi Kofman, Israel’s S.F.-based consul general to the Pacific Northwest,…
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