West Bank’s Ahava Muddies Address as EU Boosts Rules

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Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories Ltd., which makes skin creams from mineral-rich mud, moved its executives and researchers to new locations in Israel to get them away from its factory in a West Bank settlement.

That won’t be enough for Ahava to skirt a new European Union ban on funding operations on Israeli-occupied land as the company seeks a 6.2 million-euro ($8.25 million) EU grant to produce a new line of SuperFlex cosmetics for the elderly.