Archive for the ‘Israeli economy’ Category
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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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Here's a useful new publication produced by the TAUB Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. It lists a wide range of up-to-date statistics about Israel, from population figures to economic indicators and much more.
Click here to download Israel: Fast Facts for the Busy ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Vancouver Province has an optimistic story on Israel's economy. In "Bank Governor: Israel's Economy is in Good Shape," Matthew Fisher writes: "Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer said yesterday he does not expect the country to go into recession because of the Jewish state's 'tough system of bank supervision,' ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Canadians will soon have a new way to invest in Israel. The CNQ, Canada's new stock exchange, will be listing Israeli high-tech companies thanks to an exclusive agreement with IsraTech Canada Ventures. IsraTech also puts together funding for promising Israeli technology companies and entrepreneurs.
You can get Did You Know? and ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
In a July 24 Globe and Mail op-ed, University of Toronto President David Naylor writes about his recent trip to Israel in which the mission was "to understand how Israel has flipped its economy upside down in less than a generation. In the 1950s, 70 per cent of Israel's exports were agricultural; ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, takes an indepth look at Thomas Friedman's recent New York Times column “People vs. Dinosaurs.” (You can read Friedman's piece on our blog.)
Michaels has high praise for the column, which he says is ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Nortel Networks Corp., headquartered in Toronto, and Tel Aviv-based technology provider Alvarion Ltd. have struck a "strategic WiMAX agreement." The deal - worth an undisclosed amount - will combine the Israeli company's wireless network solutions with the Canadian telecom equipment maker's network gear and services. Find our more at Canadian ...
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