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Israel’s Strauss Group and Pepsico have announced that their joint venture “Sabra Dipping Company” will launch Obela - a range of healthy refrigerated dips and spreads brand in Mexico.

Israel’s Alvarion has won a follow-on order with Uruguayan carrier Dedicado Telecomunicaciones SA to provide wireless broadband services to its corporate customers in the country's capital and business center, Montevideo.

Bangalore has decided to turn its landfills into alternative power units using Israel’s refuse-derived fuel (RDF) technology. The city needs to overcome its growing garbage disposal problem from the 3,000 tonnes of rubbish it generates every day.

The Netherlands is Israel’s 2nd largest European trading partners and trying to get even bigger. Over 60 Dutch business officials have come to Israel with Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.

Israel’s Elbit Systems unit Cyclone will supply $80 million worth of structural components to Boeing over the next seven years.

Israel Opportunity Energy Resources reported that the Pelagic licenses have an estimated 6.7 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas. The five deep-water Pelagic licenses - Aditya, Ishai, Lela, Yahav, and Yoad - cover two million dunam (500,000 acres) 170 km west of Haifa.

Also 2nd for most investment in education. And Israel ranked 19th of the world's 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness, according to the 2012 World Competitiveness Yearbook of the International Institute of Management Development.

150 budding entrepreneurs participated in the first Jerusalem competition to select hi-tech business ideas. Among the 13 final selections were several from the Arab and ultra-orthodox religious communities, plus from the Palestinian Authority.

60 per cent of all Israel’s agricultural exports are now grown in the Arava – originally the desert region from Eilat to the Dead Sea. Israel has truly made the desert bloom. 600 farms now produce 150,000 tons of peppers per year, plus tomatoes, dates, melons, mangos, and even fish.

Professor Charles Murray – author of “The Bell Curve” – spoke at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies conference on the free market.