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THOUSANDS FLOCK TO TEL AVIV TO CELEBRATE GAY PRIDE WEEK

This week Tel Aviv is celebrating Gay Pride on mass, with thousands of tourists flocking to the city from around the globe for the annual parade. As part of the festive spirit the Tel Aviv municipality has painted a number of zebra crossings in rainbow colors and the popular Hilton beach has been turned into […]

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Revolutionizing chicken feed

Israel’s Metabolic Robots helps chicken and pig farmers cut the price of expensive grain while improving the animals’ welfare.    Ziv Dubinsky’s Metabolic Robot cuts down on food wastage and mortality rates.  Chicken is the most widely eaten meat in the world. About a thousand chickens are slaughtered for consumption every second worldwide. In the […]

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A lock that keeps an eye on valuables

WatchLock is an innovative new locking product devised jointly by Israeli companies that specialize in locking mechanisms and GPS tracking. WatchLock sends an alert if it’s tampered with or moved.  If locks could talk, what would they say? A new joint venture between two Israeli companies has created the WatchLock, a smart lock that sends […]

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Top 10 icons of Israeli high-tech, Part 2

In the final part of our two-part series, ISRAEL21c takes a look at the pioneers who changed the face of Israel’s history and transformed the country into the world’s high-tech trailblazer.    Israel is a startup nation of young, dynamic entrepreneurs. Their companies sell for hundreds of millions of dollars because they are making search […]

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Top 10 icons of Israeli high-tech – part one

Long before Israel was known as the startup nation, skilled and visionary men were already putting it on course as the next Silicon Valley. In the first of a two-part series, ISRAEL21c takes a look at Israel’s top 10 high-tech pioneers.   Israel’s enterprising engineers and entrepreneurs have defined an industry for the world, from […]

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The surprising source of Israel’s edible exports

Once a barren strip of desert, the Arava today has some 600 farms supplying more than 60 percent of Israel’s exports of fresh vegetables and 10% of ornamentals. How many peppers can Peter Piper pick? Well, if the protagonist in the old tongue twister were picking them in Israel’s Arava Desert, the surprising answer is […]

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Economy grows faster than expected

GDP rose by an annualized 3% in the first quarter, which was above analysts’ expectations. The Israeli economy grew by 3% on an annualized basis in the first quarter of 2012, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today. The growth rate was above the 2.5% growth predicted in a “Bloomberg” poll of analysts, GDP growth […]

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Foreign lawyers allowed to practice in Israel

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz today signed a directive regulating the work of foreign lawyers in Israel. Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz today signed a directive regulating the work of foreign lawyers in Israel, pursuant to the Foreign Lawyers Law. The directive removes barriers which prevented foreign lawyers from working in Israel, and permits collaboration between […]

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Jerusalem: Tourism, culture and sports

Jerusalem was selected as one of the top 25 most sought after destinations in 2011 in a survey held by the prestigious and popular website “Tripadvisor”. Communicated by the Municipality of Jerusalem Tourism: In 2011 the number of night stays in Jerusalem hotels amounted to 3,854,500 nights, 18% of all night stays in Israel. 80% […]

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MDNA- Madonna world tour debuting in Israel

Madonna opened yesterday (Thursday, 31 May) her MDNA world tour  performing in Israel’s Ramat Gan Stadium to a 30,000 fans.  4,000 tourists and scores of foreign journalists have arrived in Israel for the sell-out performance This is the Queen of Pop’s fourth performance in Israel. Her first show was in 1993, and Madonna closed her […]