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All food and beverages at Israel’s new café chain, Cofix, will be kosher and just NIS 5 (under $1.5 or £1). Cofix plans 300 takeaway-only franchises.

Israel’s Collplant has received a 10% investment from China’s Trauwin who will market Collplant’s products in China. Collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals and is used to repair damaged muscles and wounds.

Veed.me matches up the creative people who know how to produce, film, or edit a high-quality video clip with businesses that need them. Veed.me’s founders are two Tel Aviv University film school graduates and its clients already include Google and Waze.

In the last 10 years, Israeli exports to Africa have increased from $342 million in 2002 to $1.2 billion in 2012. 2.6% of Israeli exports go to Africa.

Israel’s Ceragon has won a huge contract with Idea Cellular to modernize thousands of wireless backhaul connections. Idea is India’s third largest mobile carrier with 125 million customers.

Low-cost airline easyJet has launched twice-weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. easyJet’s UK and Middle East commercial manager Hugh Aitken said, "The new route emphasizes that easyJet is a long term committed partner of the Israeli economy and tourism industry."

Israel’s NICE Systems will supply its “Situator Solution for Situation Management” as part of a runway incursion detection solution at Miami International Airport. It enhances NICE’s NiceVision Net 2.5 system already deployed at the airport.

(Thanks to Mike G) The world’s top “smart TV” manufacturer has bought Israel’s Boxee (in July). The Israeli technology will help Samsung integrate cable / satellite / terrestrial TV with Internet streaming services and record / playback capability.

US giant F5 Networks has made its 4th Israeli acquisition with the purchase of Versafe. Versafe is a provider of web anti-fraud, anti-phishing, and anti-malware solutions.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has invested $5 million in Tel Aviv-based DiViNetworks, a supplier of cloud-based broadband solutions to the world’s least developed countries. Two weeks ago, the World Bank invested in Israeli seed company Kaiima.