Monthly Archives: July 2022

White Night is back

Posted on July 4, 2022

After a two-year break due to Covid, Laila Lavan (White Night) returns to Tel Aviv – an all-night celebration from dusk to dawn. It features music concerts on the beach promenade, street theater and dance performances, sidewalk stalls offering street … Continue reading →

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Israel reaches European under-19 soccer semifinal

Posted on July 4, 2022

Israel’s youth soccer team made history by qualifying for the semifinal of the UEFA under-19 championships, the furthest an Israeli squad has ever advanced in the contest. They will now participate in the under-20 soccer World Cup, which is to … Continue reading →

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Israel’s unprecedented success in judo

Posted on July 4, 2022

Israel won nothing in its first 10 Olympic games. medal. But at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, judoka Yael Arad won a silver medal and dedicated it to the 11 Israeli athletes murdered in 1972. It inspired Israeli judokas … Continue reading →

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32 things to do with kids in Israel this summer

Posted on July 4, 2022

You shouldn’t run out of ideas with this Israel21c guide! https://www.israel21c.org/top-32-summer-activities-for-kids-in-israel-2/

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Samaria Film Festival

Posted on July 4, 2022

The Samaria Regional Council will host its first film festival beginning July 3. 25 movies will be screened over the course of four days in venues throughout the area. It is financed by the Samaria Cinema Fund, which has supported … Continue reading →

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Inaugural Emirates airline flight

Posted on July 4, 2022

The UAE’s largest airline Emirates made its first scheduled passenger flight to the Jewish state. 335 passengers flew from Dubai to Tel Aviv on a Boeing 777 “Gamechanger,” which, according to Emirates, features the world’s only fully enclosed first-class private … Continue reading →

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Israeli dairy to produce no-cow milk products

Posted on July 4, 2022

Israel’s Central Bottling Company (CBC – a.k.a. “Coca-Cola Israel”) has signed a 10-year agreement with Israel’s leading cultured milk production company Remilk.  CBC subsidiary Tara Dairy will use Remilk’s proteins to manufacture and market no-cow yogurts, cheeses etc. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/almdqv8av

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The digital Shekel

Posted on July 4, 2022

The Bank of Israel has published the outline and main insights from its first technological experiment of the digital shekel project.  The BoI reported that it had established distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure on the cloud and applied a Quorum … Continue reading →

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Boosting economic peace

Posted on July 4, 2022

Just over three decades after the Madrid Peace Conference, the city hosted the first Madrid and The New Middle East Business Summit. It comprised some 200 business delegates, who came to promote investment and trade relations between the United Arab … Continue reading →

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$880 million for climate-tech development

Posted on July 4, 2022

The Israeli government has approved the implementation of a NIS 3 billion program to promote innovation in climate-tech. Its 5-year plan aims to double the number of startups in this area to 100 and vastly expand the number of related … Continue reading →

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