According to a survey published by the investment bank Israel’s economic growth for 2010 upped to 3.7% from 3.3% and projections for 2011 raised from 3.5% to 4% Barclays Capital, a leading global British investment bank, published last week a highly positive quarterly survey on Israel’s economic growth. According to the survey, Israel’s economic growth […]
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Fans Offered Unparalleled Insider Access to Show Live-Stream with Interactive Platform that Allows for Sharing, Viewing, Discussing and Participating in Show-Related Content In anticipation of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) attracTV inc., developer of the first self-service Vidget (widget over video) Platform, announced today a partnership with MTV to power the “VMA VIP […]
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
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 […]
