A newsweek study of health, education, economy and politics ranked the globe’s “true national champions”. Israel was ranked 22nd, between Italy and Spain. Source: Newsweek
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Tel Aviv based Start-Up Soluto won the prestigious TechCrunch competition with its lead product – software download that checks your PC’s boot problems and offers suggestions for how to make things go more smoothly. As the winner, Soluto’s team, led by CEO Tomer Dvir, received a $50,000 prize – along with invaluable publicity including write-ups […]
The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released on August 15: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is ranked 72nd in the general top 100 and 5th in Asia! Within the sub-ranks: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is ranked 46th in Social Sciences. The Weizmann Institute of Science is ranked 46th in Natural Sciences. […]
In July, the State of Israel sold 8.33% of the shares of Discount Bank to the investment bank UBS, which won a competitive proceeding, for a consideration of NIS 552,688,172. Four foreign investment banks entered bids in the tender. In the transaction, executed by Finance Ministry Accountant General Shouky Oren according to the instructions of […]
The Land of “Milk and Honey”… and Natural Gas Following the developments in the last few months, Israel is on the verge of absorbing impressive amounts of local extracted natural gas into its energy market. The updated map of Israel’s offshore gas potential include 3 major fields: Mari-B field located offshore the towns of Ashdod […]
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EUREKA Israeli Chairmanship
The State of Israel will chair EUREKA for the next 12 months, since July 2010 until June 2011. Israel is due to host 6 EUREKA official meetings over the next 12 months in Tel Aviv, Eilat, Haifa, Nazereth and Jerusalem. See list of official meetings of the Israeli Eureka chairmanship The Israeli chairmanship, led by […]
The government approved the proposal by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Yuval Steinitz, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Avigdor Lieberman, regarding the State of Israel’s membership in the OECD. This decision includes approval of the membership agreement for joining the organization, which was signed in Paris on June 29, 2010, and contains Israel’s […]
On September 7, 2010, a new exhibition titled ‘And Thou Shalt Breathe Life into a Gem’ featuring carved gemstones from the Idar-Oberstein collection opened at the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum in Ramat Gan, Israel’s diamond center. Those present at the opening ceremony included Israel’s Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer; Ramat Gan Mayor […]
As reported by IVC, Mr. Binyamin “Fuad” Ben-Eliezer, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, said last week that an understanding had been reached with China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) vice-president, Zhang Xiao Giang, to sign cooperation agreement. Ben-Eliezer noted that following the signing of the cooperation agreement, wehich will take place soon, each […]
As reported in IVC, The company provides a service platform for mobile devices’ Customer Relationship Management. Israeli start up CommuniTake has raised $1.05 million. $750,000 was raised in a Round A led by Plus Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Moldawsky group, while an additional $300,000 was received in the form of a grant […]
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