Monthly Archives: February 2014

Apple to open R&D Centre in Israel

Posted on February 9, 2014

Apple Inc. has decided to open a development center in Israel focusing on semiconductors. It will be Apple’s first and only R&D centre outside its California headquarters. It is a major change in strategy and signals the US giant’s confidence … Continue reading →

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Building India’s National R&D Solar Center

Posted on February 9, 2014

Israel’s Ener-t beat out billion-dollar companies to win the contract for the National Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Center in Rajasthan, India. Ener-t uses ultra efficient next generation CSP Parabolic Trough technology and is already building a 50 MW power plant … Continue reading →

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12 survivors celebrate coming of age

Posted on February 9, 2014

Twelve Holocaust survivors, five men and seven women, celebrated a joint bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah ceremony in Haifa, which they were unable to mark during their youth. “At the age of 13 I was in Auschwitz,” one of them … Continue reading →

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“Allah gave the land of Israel to the Jews

Posted on February 9, 2014
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Returning home to Jerusalem

Posted on February 9, 2014

A new 7 min documentary featuring Jewish families who lived in Jerusalem’s Old City for generations, but were evicted by the Arab Legion in 1948 after the State of Israel was declared. They returned home 19 years later in 1967 … Continue reading →

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Preserving our history from earthquakes

Posted on February 9, 2014

Israeli officials are to install seismic monitoring systems to help protect the Jewish State’s most important ancient treasures from earthquakes. Previously, the focus has been to retrofit existing schools, hospitals and apartment buildings, but now key historical sites are to … Continue reading →

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More help from our friends

Posted on February 9, 2014

Christian readers of Israel Today have teamed up with local charities to provide after school activities for children of single-parent or dysfunctional families that cannot provide for all their needs. They even provided a place to sleep, for the most … Continue reading →

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Your start-up MBA

Posted on February 9, 2014

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University and Israel’s Technion Institute have joined the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in offering budding English-speaking entrepreneurs the opportunity to acquire their MBA skills in the Start-up Nation. http://www.timesofisrael.com/hebrew-u-program-gives-foreign-students-start-up-taste/ http://www.jmgclients.com/barilanmba/ http://www.jwire.com.au/news/technion-offers-mba-to-international-market/40162

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ClickSoftware gets you back in business

Posted on February 9, 2014

Israel’s ClickSoftware gives companies the ability to schedule employees to handle crises as well as normal activities. It is winning contracts for dealing with storms and “unscheduled” emergencies, like major fires, earthquakes, gas leaks, forest fires, and burst water mains. … Continue reading →

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US Navy ships to have Israeli water filters

Posted on February 9, 2014

(Thanks to Nevet – www.broaderview.org The US Navy will buy $2 million of water filters from Israel’s Amiad. The filters will be installed in all new ships built at the Navy’s Virginia shipyards including the massive new USS John F … Continue reading →

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