A little news emerged today from the Israeli businessworld. Israel’s largest company, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NASDAQ: TEVA) has annouced a takeover of European generic drug company Ratiopharm, for 3.6 billion Euros.
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Etsy is an online marketplace that connects buyers to individual artists. The site Green Prophet, an environmentalist website, recently wrote a feature on Israeli Etsy artists that support the environment.
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A group of Israeli business people and the Israeli government are going to contribute to a $50 million for Arab Israelis to develop businesses.
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This is a guest post from Yehudit at JobKatif, a non-profit dedicated to find employment for families impacted by the Gaza Strip disengagement.
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A Canadian oil and gas company doing an offshore test on Israel’s coast announced a natural gas find at the Sarah and Mira test sites worth well over $7 billion.
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The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Mr. Angel Gurria, recently visited Israel as part of Israel’s application process to join the organisation. During his visit he issued a report regarding the current state of Israel’s economy, and improvements that need to be made to bring Israel into line with other [...]
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a major international body with a very self explanatory name, agrees that Israel is on track for membership by the end of 2010.
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According to Egyptian sources, the United States is supportive of a plan that would create a Palestinian state in 2012. Israeli leaders say that it is absurd to think that a new state could be built up in two years.
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Judaism seems to have a somewhat ambivalent approach to the role of women in society and in the religion. On the one hand, female characters like the first women Eve, the four mothers Rachel, Sarah, Rivka and Leah, Ruth the Moabite and her mother-in-law Naomi and many others have strong positions in biblical stories and [...]
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You say you want a revolution; well, we’ve got one–a green revolution, to be exact. From a conference in Copenhagen to the marketing meetings at GM, we are beginning to understand the enormous impact that we have on the environment. Sustainable business models are starting to look beyond the short-term with the understanding that the [...]
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