Hoping to reverse Israel’s brain and biotech innovation drain, the new NGO BioNegev plans to transform the Negev Desert into a major biotechnology hub. Israeli biotech companies like Given Imaging, which has developed a camera in a pill, are improving lives worldwide. Now Shay Yarkoni hopes to create a biocluster in Israel’s Negev desert. […]
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Israel is at the cutting edge of some of the best Internet technologies around. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the brightest new companies that are now revolutionizing the web. Israel’s success in the technology sector is no secret. Over the years, the country has become a key research and development center for multinational companies such […]
Few people know that Israel is one of the global pioneers in health information technology, a digital revolution that began in the mid-1990s. Israel’s HMOs—notably Clalit Health Services and Maccabi, which today serve about 80 percent of the Israeli population—led this revolution, which resulted in the implementation of electronic medical records used by virtually 100 […]
As reported in Israel 21C: National Geographic Magazine ranked Tel Aviv ninth on its list of “Top 10 Beach Cities,” describing it as “the Miami Beach of the Mediterranean.” The magazine that has been “inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888,” writes: “Call it Miami Beach on the Med. Tel Aviv is the Dionysian […]
Adversity, like necessity, is often the mother of invention by Dan Senor and Saul Singer Some warn that Israel is facing its toughest constellation of threats ever. Yet we believe that Israel is poised to play a central role in world affairs, not as a flashpoint for conflict but as a global innovation leader. Geopolitical […]
For the first time, tax rates on vehicles is linked to the level of pollution emitted by these vehicles The Israel Tax Authority published last week an analysis of the effect of the green tax reform on automobile sales in Israel. Israel’s Green Tax reform went into effect on August 2, 2009. The reform […]
As reported in IVC: “In order to ensure that sustainable and safe technologies are developed in Israel, it’s necessary to maintain a suitable balance between the state and the market.” In an interview with “Globes”, former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge says, “The socioeconomic and environmental needs of the 21st century require innovation and energy […]
As reported in IVC: Morgan Stanley also mulling investments in Israel, says economic attach in Washington. American aviation and defense giant Lockheed Martin will be investing tens of millions of dollars in Israeli investment funds, said the Finance Ministry’s economic attach? in the United States, Assaf Vitman. Investment bank Morgan Stanley is also also considering […]
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee unanimously approved a bill to establish an economic court separate from the Tel Aviv District Court to deal solely with economic cases. The bill, which had been suggested by Israel Securities Authority chairman Zohar Goshen, proposes that the economic court will deal with most of the legal proceedings […]
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