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February 02, 2012 |
Three Tehran businessmen are expected to attend the upcoming Agritech -Tel Aviv's 18th International Agricultural Technology Exhibition in May.
According to Ynet news, organizers of the exposition were taken aback when they were contacted by the Iranians who expressed interest in coming to the fair to purchase hothouse equipment.
Iran and Israel have no diplomatic ties.
Israel is celebrated for its agriculture technologies and exports its know how to countries around the globe.
Agritech is one of the world's most important exhibitions in the field of agricultural technologies. Some 200 companies are expected to showcase at this year's event.
The fair attracts thousands of people from around the world and regularly hosts Arab delegates from neighboring countries like Jordan, Iraq, United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
The annual Agritech expo will take place May 15-17 in Tel Aviv. ...
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February 01, 2012 |
Take Israel's tennis star Shahar Peer add Britain's No. 1 Elena Baltacha and then splice in world No. 8 Agnieszka Radwanska and the result is great tennis in Eilat for the next four days.
The Fed Cup Women's Tennis games kicks off today at the Red Sea Tennis Center in Eilat, which was built especially for the games.
Unlike standard tennis matches, Fed Cup offers players the chance to play on a team for their country.
It's the second consecutive year that Israel is hosting the European-African zone group. Fifteen countries will be represented at the Red Sea event.
In related news, the Ministry of Tourism says it will invest nearly $7 million in 2012 on marketing Eilat as a sports, tourism, and vacation resort, based on the new branding of the city "Eilat+".
"The city of Eilat, whose economic revenue is largely based on tourism, must continue to develop the tourism industry, by building hotels, new attractions and businesses, holding events that will attract tourists and building the physical and personnel infrastructures that will assist Eilat compete in the tourism arena," said Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov. "The Ministry of Tourism is obligated to the city of Eilat and its citizens and will continue collaboration with various officials in order to strengthen the positioning of Eilat as a leading attractive tourist resort in Israel".
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January 31, 2012 |
Israeli biopharmaceutical firm NasVax has attained provisional approval for nearly $1 million in grant money from the Office of the Chief Scientist. The grant to NasVax - which develops improved vaccines and immunotherapeutic products - will be divided. Some $460,000 will be used for NasVax's overseas R&D plan and almost $490,000 will be invested in its R&D in Israel. NasVax is developing improved vaccines and immunotherapies to treat fatty liver disease and other inflammatory diseases. In 2011, NasVax announced the success of a Phase 2a clinical trial of a new oral immunotherapy for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an inflammatory disease associated with fatty liver disease and the metabolic syndrome. NasVax works in four areas: inflammatory and auto-immune diseases; Alzheimer's disease; pneumococcal vaccines; and enhancing the immunogenicity of vaccines and immunotherapeutics.
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January 30, 2012 |
Pita, it would seem, is the new baguette. Israeli pastry chefs won first prize at the Sixth SIGEP Bread Cup international bread baking championship in Italy over the weekend, beating nine other countries along the way.
The contest included four categories: traditional bread, healthy bread, baked dessert and artistic bread.
Israel placed first in both the healthy bread category - a spinach pita filled with pistachio-covered cheese balls - and in the baked dessert category - strawberry brioche with fruit topping.
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The Israeli team included chefs Eli Abraham, Jack Hazan, Alex Besser, Eran Shwartbard and Osnat Lipson.
Australia placed second in the overall competition.
Other countries taking part included Mexico, Morocco, France, Germany, Spain, England and Portugal.
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January 30, 2012 |
January has been a good month for Israeli filmmakers. Less than a week after Joseph Cedar's Footnote was named as a contender for the Oscars, the Sundance Film Festival 2012 proclaimed Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's The Law in These Parts the Best Foreign Documentary and honored Emad Burnat with the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award for his film, 5 Broken Cameras. "This is the hardest film I've made," Alexandrowicz said at the awards ceremony. "This is an amazing moment for me as a filmmaker, but it's a film about a painful and unresolved subject." The Law in These Parts, which also won the Best Documentary award at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival, explores the legal infrastructure of the IDF and the implications of the 1967 borders. It combines interviews with senior legal experts as well as former Israel Defense Forces officials in charge of the army's judicial system in the West Bank. The directing award in the world cinema category went to 5 Broken Cameras, a joint Palestinian, Israeli and French production.
5 Broken Cameras was named for the cameras that broke while shooting this documentary about the separation barrier being built in a Palestinian village. "I can't believe I'm standing here," said Burnat. "This film was a gift from the beginning. It was a gift for me to go to this village building where I spent many years." Israel had two other contenders at the prestigious independent movies competition: Barbie Blues and Gypsy Davy.
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