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Israel’s Tower Semiconductor has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shanghai ICC Technology & Industry Promotion Center to expand the distribution of Israeli complementary metal–oxide–semiconductors into the Chinese market. (Originally in Globes)

Please watch this excellent video featuring venture capitalist Jon Medved of OurCrowd. Here he is publicizing the funding of Israeli startups on Bloomberg TV Asia.

When US-based LivePerson bought Israeli start-ups HumanClick, Kasamba and NuConomy it acquired 400 Israeli staff – about half the company. LivePerson also listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. So when an on-line sales site asks you if you want to chat, Israeli software is responsible.

Tel Aviv University Professor Shay Zucker and Dr Yifat Dzigan will be searching for new planets in our Galaxy as part of the European Space Agency’s Gaia project, which launched last week. Gaia contains a camera with a billion pixels to measure the movements of the stars.

The Israeli cabinet has approved the "Digital Israel" project, designed to improve public access to the education, health and welfare systems. It will also encourage e-trading and reduce bureaucracy. The optical fiber grid will allow Internet speeds up to 1,000 megabits per second.

Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to build a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The initiative will produce millions of cubic meters of drinking water for the region, hydroelectric power and replenish the critically dwindling Dead Sea.

The Jordan-based SESAME scientific research project has chosen an Israeli as vice president. Professor Eliezer Rabinovici of Jerusalem's Hebrew University is the new Vice President of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East.

UK Daily Mail’s travel editor praised the Israeli airline for ensuring safety. “Maybe it's time to ditch the security scanner and actually talk to people at airports...it works for El Al”

Israeli start-up GreenSpense represented Israel in the International Cleantech Open Ideas Competition in San Francisco, the “Oscar” of clean-technology awards. Its no-gas eco-friendly aerosol can won 1st place in the Chemistry & Advanced Materials category.

This article describes why Israel is to host January’s Cybertech 2014 International Exhibition and Conference.