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Fitch Reaffirms Israel’s Long-Term Credit Rating for Foreign and Domestic Currency

Israel Ministry of Finance Press Release Minister of Finance Yair Lapid: “The decision to reaffirm Israel’s ‘A’ credit rating reflects yet another mark of trust in the Israeli market and in the economic policy that the Ministry of Finance is leading” The credit rating agency, Fitch, has reaffirmed Israel’s ‘A’ credit rating and has left […]

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Israel Signs Key European Scientific Funding Deal

Israel signed an agreement with the European Union on Sunday that opens the way for billions of dollars in funding for scientific research and innovation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso attended the ceremony in Jerusalem where EU Ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, and Israel’s Science, Technology and Space Minister, […]

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US-Israeli Energy-Tech Partnerships Take Wing

  The US-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD), which has been fostering collaborations between Israeli and American companies since 1977, has some significant new energy sector partnerships under its wing.   Five years ago, the BIRD Foundation launched BIRD Energy, a special initiative connecting America’s Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and […]

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JVP and Microsoft Ventures to set up cyber program

  Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and Microsoft Ventures today announced the establishment of an accelerator for cyber technologies. The program will operate at Microsoft Israel’s offices in Herzliya. The start-ups selected for the four-month program will receive advice and assistance from industry executives and have the use of physical infrastructures and technology for free. The joint […]

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Last Chance to join Innovation Trade Mission to Israel

The Mission is scheduled, Sunday, 18 May – Saturday, 24 May, 2014 and will focus on Israel’s technological excellence, biomedical advances, venture capital and entrepreneurial society, innovative culture and extraordinary start-up environment. This Mission will coincide with the Israel Innovation Conference (MIXiii) – the first in the world where Biomed, High-tech and the Office of […]

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Israeli Exoskeleton Device ReWalk in Media Spotlight

Argo Medical Technologies, who produce the ReWalk exoskeleton which allows paraplegics to stand, walk and go up and down stairs has been in Australia and New Zealand this week, and has received a lot of media coverage. Argo is in this part of the world looking for a distributor for their amazing technology. Media Stories […]

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Invitation to InnovNation 2014 | Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program in ISRAEL | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Mobileye in Australia

    http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1   Michael Hirsh from Mobileye was in Australia this week and  recently spoke at the Israel Trade Commission’s Innovation for a Better World  boardroom lunch series. Also speaking at the event was John Wall from the NSW Road Safety Centre,  and  together they created an interesting picture of hos technology is shaping […]

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Israeli Innovations for a Better World Event, Auckland NZ

The Israel Trade Commission invite you, to an Exclusive Business Lunch which will highlight 12 of Israel’s most innovative companies.

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Top 12 Agri-tech Israeli Companies

  As published in Israel21c:   You’ve heard about drip irrigation and cherry tomatoes, but there are hundreds of Israeli technologies changing the world’s farms for the better. ISRAEL21c chooses the top 12. Here are technologies you might not have heard about –– ones to make old farms futuristic. 1.     Evogene is an Israeli seed company […]