Archive for the ‘Israeli economy’ Category
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Tourism to Israel continues to grow. In February, Israel welcomed a record-breaking 222,000 visitors, the highest number of tourists in a single month in Israel's history. In the first two months of 2010, 434,300 tourists visited Israel, compared with 283,400 visitors in the first two months of 2009. You can ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
More good news on the economic front: Israel's economy grew by 4.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, its fastest pace in nearly two years. Exports - which account for nearly half of Israel's economic activity - surged 33 percent in the fourth quarter. You can find out more ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Israel's economy is "ready to roar," according to analysts from influential investment banking firm Barclays Capital. Finding that Israel passed through the global recession with only light damage, the analysts expect Israel's real GDP to grow by 2.9 percent in 2010 and by 3.1 percent in 2011, with gross public ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at coverage - or lack thereof - following the Israel navy discovery of a ship laden with Iranian arms bound for Hezbollah.
On Nov. 4, the Israeli Navy intercepted the "Francop" ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Dan Senor, co-author of "Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle," discusses with CNBC how Israel has managed to become a leader in business innovation.
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Here's a piece from the Report on Business section of the Globe and Mail:
The Israel Test: A guide for capitalism
The Globe And Mail, Fri Jul 31 2009
by Neil Reynolds
OTTAWA -- Early in 1981, with his million-copy bestseller Wealth and Poverty, George Gilder established himself as the intellectual herald of the ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Influential investment analyst MSCI is upgrading the status of Israel to developed from emerging market. Israel's upgrade will take place in May 2010, when the MSCI Israel Index will be included in the MSCI World Index and in the MSCI EAFE (Europe, Asia and Far East) Index. The move should ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University recently released its War and Peace Index for April 2008. Among the key findings:
On the eve of the state of Israel's 61st Independence Day, despite all the security, economic, social, and political difficulties and despite the gloomy analyses in ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Despite the economic slowdown, the Israeli government Investment Promotion Center has received a record number of applications for the funding of new business initiatives: 109 requests compared with an average of 30 in recent years. These applications could result in 800 new jobs. You can find out more at Arutz ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
A huge natural gas reservoir found offshore from Haifa is poised to meet Israel's natural gas demand for about 15 years, and reduce the country's dependence on gas imports. Preliminary estimates indicate that the field might contain over 88 billion cubic metres of gas. You can read more in the ...
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