Stock Photo - Erel Margalit, Member of Israel's Knesset, and its Economic Development Taskforce, announces the New Jersey-Israel Healthy, Functional and Medical Foods Alliance at a signing ceremony at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Friday, September 18, 2015. The alliance between Rutgers and Tel-Hai College in Israel's Galilee region, Margalit said, will focus on the science of using food as a way to tackle obesity, and manage diabetes, food allergies, and other health problems. The parties will collaborate on scientific research, technology commercialization, and business incubation, and to develop “a world-class business cluster for the development of the healthy, functional and medical foods industry” in both Israel and New Jersey. Signing the agreement in the front row, from left to right: Giora Salz, Chairman of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, Galil Elyon; Yossi Mekori, incoming President, Tel-Hai College; MK Margalit; and Robert Goodman, Executive Dean, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Executive Director, Rutgers NJAES. Credit: Ron Sachs - NO WIRE SERVICE - | usage worldwide. - New Brunswick/New Jersey/United States of America