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• Gay market study spans US to Israel

  March 14, 2010 - The largest-ever gay market research study is set to launch in 14 countries, from Mexico's border with Texas right across the world to Israel and to the top of Sweden. OutNow, the specialist global marketing agency that developed the study, says it will b...

• SolarEdge on top for energy innovation

  March 11, 2010 - The March 2010 issue of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies named Israel's SolarEdge one of the world's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy for 2010. SolarEdge Technologies is an innovative provider of distributed solar power harvesting and PV mo...

• Secret life of friction revealed

  March 10, 2010 - New research by Israeli scientists about how friction works in physics may be useful in assessing a wide range of phenomena, from computer hard drives to earthquakes.In an article by Professor Jay Fineberg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his doc...

• Oldest man in the world lives in Israel

  March 09, 2010 - An envoy from the Guinness Book of World Records is due in Israel any day now to formalize 115-year-old David Pur's title of Oldest Man in the World.Three of Pur's nine children are still alive, along with 18 grandchildren and 56 great-grandchildren, acco...

• Israel, Egypt may unite on solar project

  March 08, 2010 - At the recent Eilat-Eilot International Renewable Energy Conference it was announced that Israel and Egypt may collaborate on a mega solar project. Israel's Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer revealed at the conference that during hi...

• Rising French, Israeli scientists meet

  March 08, 2010 - For the first time, Israel and France are bringing together in Israel outstanding young research scientists who have the potential to be Nobel Prize candidates. A conference starts in Jerusalem today and will run until March 11. It was organized jointly ...

• 72 Israeli companies at Mobile World

  March 07, 2010 - Seventy-two Israeli companies were among those participating in the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. About 50,000 visitors from 200 countries attended the congress. The Israeli presence was a big improvement over last year, when o...

• 1,400-year-old wine press discovered

  March 04, 2010 - One of the largest wine presses ever discovered in Israel was unearthed during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in a region to be used for agriculture by a new community slated to be built for the evacuees from Gush Katif. ...

• Tel Aviv Exchange signs with Toronto

  March 03, 2010 - Early last month, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize cooperation between the markets. Under the MoU, the exchanges will work to broaden relations between th...

• Israeli-grown apples exported to Syria

  March 02, 2010 - Starting today, March 2, and for the next several weeks, about 30 truckloads of apples grown in the Golan Heights will be exported to Syria, in accordance with government directives and at the request of the International Red Cross. The apples will be tr...

• Israel's first Design Museum opens

  March 02, 2010 - The Design Museum of Holon will be the first museum for contemporary design in Israel and one of just a few in the world. Created by internationally renowned Israeli architect Ron Arad, the building itself is considered a work of art. The opening exhibit...

• New excavations confirm Madaba Map

  March 01, 2010 - The discovery of a 1,500-year-old main road about 15 feet below street level in Jerusalem's Old City confirms the accuracy of the Madaba Map, an ancient mosaic map from the sixth-seventh century CE, found in a church in Jordan. The map depicts the Land of...

• Israel on list of 25 best banks in 2010

  February 28, 2010 - The international magazine Global Finance recently highlighted a list of 25 banks chosen as the best in 2010 in developed markets. Israel's Mizrahi Tefahot Bank is on the list, along with leading banks from North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East....

• Colin Firth to play Lehi commander

  February 25, 2010 - British actor Colin Firth of Single Man fame will play the role of Avraham 'Yair' Stern, founder and leader of the Lehi underground movement, in director Michael Winterbottom's new movie about Israel The Promised Land, to be filmed this summer. Lehi was...

• More antioxidants in colored chickpeas

  February 24, 2010 - Researchers at the Volcani Center in Israel find that colored chickpeas have significantly higher antioxidant qualities than the regular cream and beige varieties, according to a new study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food...

• €1.6 m. for brain and memory research

  February 23, 2010 - A €1.6 million grant for brain and memory research has been awarded to a group of scientists from Israel and Germany by DIP, a German-Israeli Project Cooperation. The grant, to be awarded over a five-year period, will fund new research that will attemp...

• Israeli chocolate is sweet on Las Vegas

  February 22, 2010 - The Israeli Max Brenner chain specializing in chocolate is truly going international this year, with a 9,214-square-foot branch facing the H&M flagship store in Caesars Palace mall in Los Vegas. The two-storey branch is to include more than 200 seats,...

• Google in talks to buy Israeli start-up

  February 21, 2010 - Google is in early talks to buy the Catch Media startup to better compete with its archrival iTunes, according to the Cnet news website. Catch Media is based in Los Angeles and runs an R&D center in Jerusalem.Catch Media's "Play Anywhere" technology ...

• ALYN Hospital joins IsraAID in Haiti

  February 21, 2010 - As the emergency response shifts from rescue and recovery to rehabilitation in earthquake-devastated Haiti, Israel is at the forefront once again.Last week, under the auspices of IsraAid, a team of medical experts from ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem specializ...

• Empowerment for Arab Israeli women

  February 18, 2010 - For the second year running, the Arab-Jewish Community Center in Jaffa, in conjunction with the Peres Center for Peace and Cisco Systems has held a high-tech professional training course for Arab Israeli women to ease their entry into the field.While ther...