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When considering the most innovative and business-oriented nations, Israel is not the most likely candidate that comes to mind. In fact, many would even struggle to identify it on a map. Moreover, to put things into the right perspective, Israel’s territory and population are approximately the size of the State …
This week Israel will reach a massive milestone in its history: celebrating 70 years of independence. Israel’s re-establishment and its achievements over the past seven decades are astonishing and by far beat the odds of the cards dealt to it on May 14th, 1948. Looking back to the past 70 …
For decades Israel’s high-tech start-up scene has been considered one of the most exciting and impressive in the world, on par with Silicon Valley, and producing game-changing technologies that continue to push the innovative envelope. Israel ranks #2 for venture capital availability, and is ranked #3 in the world for …
So, you want to support Israel and be part of her economic success, but you don’t live in Israel, don’t travel there too often and are not sure about the investment possibilities you have. So how can you accomplish this? This article will help. In our previous articles, we discussed …
Ever since ancient times, Israeli culture has valued education as a primary pillar in the establishment of the nation. The Babylonian Talmud, compiled in the 4th century CE states, “The very world rests on the breath of a child in the schoolhouse” (Shabbat Tractate, 119b), exemplifying the importance of study …
2016 has been a turbulent year in the global economic markets. The slowing Chinese economy caused the markets to react negatively in January as the Chinese GDP Annual Growth Rate slowed to 6.7%. The U.K.’s decision exit the European Union (aka the “Brexit”) caused severe reactions on all the major …
Fitch Ratings, one of the “Big Three” international credit rating agencies alongside Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, has upgraded Israel’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings by one notch to A+ from A, with a stable outlook. Fitch’s announcement was released on Friday, November 11th and now has Israel ranked …
When author Mark Twain visited the Land of Israel (then still called Palestine) in 1867, he penned impressions of what he witnessed in his book “Innocents Abroad”: “A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. We reached Tabor safely. We never …
King David wrote in the first verse of the 144th Psalm “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle”. David was a man who knew many battles, although he hardly went looking for them. Most people do not desire to be at war with others, nor …
