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Woodside in $1.2b Israeli LNG deal

As published by the ASX: Woodside has reached an agreement in principle to acquire a participating interest in one of the largest recent gas discoveries worldwide, which could see the company play a key role in the potential development of a liquefied natural gas industry in Israel. The Leviathan Joint Venture participants, Noble Energy Mediterranean […]

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Tel Aviv Ranks 2nd in Global Start Up Cities List

Tel Aviv has ranked 2nd in a list of top cities for startups around the world, and is the only non-Us city to feature in the top 5. The ranking reiterates the buzz of startup activity that is currently taking place in Israel and specifically in Tel Aviv.

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How Iron Dome technology protects Israel

Israeli innovation is behind the Iron Dome system that has saved countless lives from missiles fired from Gaza. When a missile is fired towards an Israeli city, in matter of a seconds the Iron Dome’s electronic sensors analyze the trajectory of the rockets and determines if one of them is headed for a built-up area of the city. Two missiles dart out of the system’s mobile launcher, painting white streaks across the sky and colliding with the rocket somewhere above Israel’s urban center.

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Israeli PM meets with Woodside CEO Peter Coleman

As reported in Globes.co.il: Woodside CEO Peter Coleman told Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon that Asia is the best market for LNG exports. “Natural gas is a strategic asset for the future of the Israeli economy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Australia’s Woodside Petroleum Ltd. CEO Peter Coleman at a meeting today. Minister of Energy […]

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Israeli Water Company TaKaDu Expand Activities to Australia

TaKaDu is the global leader in Water Network Monitoring, providing a comprehensive platform for water utilities looking to reduce costs and increase efficiency. TaKaDu’s web-based solution detects, classifies, alerts and provides real-time insight on network inefficiencies, leaks, bursts, supply breaches, faults and other network events. The solution is based on complex algorithms which analyze online […]

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Discoveries of vast gasfields off Israel provides opportunity for Woodside

As reported in The Australian Newspaper: “LET me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses,” former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir once joked. “He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!” Unlike Australia, Israel’s lack of […]

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“Made in Israel” Video Clip

The Israel Trade Commission is excited to share with you the video clip, “Made in Israel”. This short clip features some of the hottest technologies that have been developed in Israel.    

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Mobileye in Australia

  The 2012 Australasian College of Road Safety national conference was held in Sydney at The Menzies Sydney Hotel on 9 and 10 August. The Conference aims were to take road safety to the next level of knowledge and implementation and to assist in the translation of research into action in keeping with the Safe […]

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Beyond High-Tech: Israel’s Jewellery Market

For some time, Israel has had the image of a start-up nation built on the foundation of its successful high-tech industry. Though it is undoubtedly true that those industries form the core of Israel’s industrial renown, it often overshadows the smaller, yet just as innovative consumer goods sector, especially the jewellery market. Since its inception […]

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The ANZAC Trail From the Be’eri Badlands to Be’er Sheva

During World War I, the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire was allied with Germany and Austro-Hungary. In January 1915, a force of 20,000 Turkish troops set out from the Negev and crossed the Sinai Desert in an attempt to attack the Suez Canal, which was under British control. The attack was a failure. Major-General John Maxwell, commander […]