Monthly Archives: November 2011

Google helps Israeli start-ups

Posted on November 27, 2011

Staring in August, Google will host roughly 20 “pre-seed” start-ups, or about 80 people, in its Tel Aviv building, for a period of a few months whilst they develop their high-tech ideas. The project will provide support at exactly the … Continue reading →

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Family united after 60 years

Posted on November 20, 2011

Yad Vashem’s holocaust database has been generating hundreds of emotional reunions of long-lost families. Although brothers Nahum and Yaakov Korenblum died 10 years ago, their descendents discovered each other after previous searching failed due to different spellings of their surname. … Continue reading →

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Inspired from above

Posted on November 20, 2011

Rafi Peretz is Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defence Forces. He was one of Israel’s first religious Air Force pilots. At the lecture he delivered at Yeshiva University, he impressed many as an individual, a model soldier and a world … Continue reading →

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Such faith in Peace

Posted on November 20, 2011

Six weeks after Asher Palmer and his son Yehonatan were murdered by local Palestinian Arab terrorists, Asher’s brother Shimon wants to “cross the wadi” and meet his Arab neighbours. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=1875

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Hula painted frog rediscovered

Posted on November 20, 2011

The frog is unique to Israel and was long thought extinct following the draining of the Hula valley in the 1950s. It highlights the success of recent environmental improvements at the Nature Reserve. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/long-thought-extinct-hula-painted-frog-found-once-again-in-israeli-nature-reserve-1.396000

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Strauss goes global

Posted on November 20, 2011

Israel’s second-largest food & beverage company has teamed up with Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to bring Strauss Water’s high-tech, environmentally friendly purification products and services to the UK and Ireland. The intention is to then expand the venture into to … Continue reading →

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Israel is strategic to SAP

Posted on November 20, 2011

The German software company’s Israeli R&D Centre is the front line of the company, where new ideas are tested out and turned into technology. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000698414&fid=1725

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Going Dutch to Eilat

Posted on November 20, 2011

Dutch tourist agency Holiday Travel this week inaugurated a charter route between Schiphol Airport Amsterdam and Uvda Airport. It expects 8,000 Dutch tourists to use the charter service during the 2011-12 winter tourist season. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000698671&fid=1725

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Speeding up those payments

Posted on November 20, 2011

Israeli mobile payment application developer ZooZ Ltd. has raised $1.5 million to help rollout its payment solution. ZooZ enables mobile app developers to integrate digital payment and checkout options easily into their Android or iOS applications. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000698835&fid=1725

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Powering into India and Brazil

Posted on November 20, 2011

With the recession in the USA and Europe continuing, Israeli technology companies like TowerJazz are expanding into the lucrative BRIC markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000698847&fid=1725

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