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Business Matters: Live from Northern Israel

Thu, 21 May 15

In our third special report from Israel and the Palestinian Territories we go to the city of Haifa in northern Israel. We hear about its reputation as an economic powerhouse of industrial development, which is great for the economy, but perhaps not so good for the air quality. Haifa also prides itself on being a place where Arabs and Jews get along well. We ask the locals if that is really the case. Six of the world's biggest banks are to pay authorities a total of almost ￡6bn dollars for their role in the manipulation the foreign exchange market. We hear the story from the BBC's Michelle Fleury. And El Ni?o - the natural phenomenon which periodically occurs in the Pacific and has been responsible for some extreme weather around the world - could be back. Historical climatologist Evelyn Browning Garriss explains. Our guests are Sharon Udasin, a reporter at Jerusalem Post and Benjamin Bental, professor of economics at Haifa University.