Israel says it's doing what it can to eliminate a royal stink that's developed along its border with Jordan. That's after Jordanian King Abdullah II complained of a less than princely odor wafting from the Israeli side of the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday.
Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio that Jordanian officials last week asked that the stench from a livestock quarantine facility in Eilat be neutralized after it drifted across the border frontier toward Abdullah's palace in Aqaba.
Upon receiving the complaint, Ezra said, Israeli officials immediately spread deodorants around the site to clear the air and planned a thorough cleanup shortly.
``I think that when we get a request from Jordan, just as when we make a request of Jordan, it's one country's duty to do as much as possible for the other,'' Ezra said.
Israel also has ordered the owners of the facility to clean up the large amounts of animal waste that had built up at the site, Environment Ministry spokesman Sharon Achdut said.
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