First budget airline to offer flights to Israel from Manchester
Posted on October 8, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Business | Tags: | 1 Comment
For the first time, a budget airline is offering flights to Israel. The new route, offered by Thomsonfly, , will fly three times a week between Manchester and Tel Aviv starting on November 1. While Thomsonfly is also offering new routes to other European cities, they seem particularly excited about the new Israel-offering: “Our decision to launch into Tel Aviv will satisfy the huge demand for direct flights to this exciting Israeli city,” said Guy Stephenson, Thomsonfly’s commercial director. Read more»
Fraud Sciences technology to stop online purchasing fraud
Posted on October 7, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Business | Tags: | 7 Comments
The Christmas season is fast approaching, and in preparation stores, both brick-and-mortar and online, are preparing for the shopping rush. However, purchasing fraud is a growing and costly problem for online retailers. Israel’s Fraud Sciences has developed a technology that helps online retailers verify the identity of buyers and accept orders that they would have seen as suspicious in the past - thus enabling them to increase their sales. Read more»
Comverse looking up with 3 intl. deals
Posted on October 7, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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It looks like Comverse has come out of the options backdating scandal that rocked the company a little over a year ago - with three shiny new deals. The Israeli company, that was subsequently delisted from Nasdaq and the S&P as a result of the scandal, has just landed the following deals:
- Cable & Wireless International, a leading communications company, has chosen Comverse to support the billing of its mobile customers across 13 Caribbean islands.
- Corporacion Digitel, C.A., Venezuela’s only GSM mobile operator, also chose Comverse to provide billing solutions for its prepaid requirements and to manage all of its subscribers.
- And finally, Pathway Communications, a leading Canadian provider of Internet solutions, has launched voice services using the Comverse MyCall Converged Communications and Converged IPCentrex Solutions.
It looks like it’s going to be a good New Year for Comverse.
Stephen Colbert takes on Mearsheimer and his book
Posted on October 7, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Videos | Tags: | 1 Comment
Stephen Colbert interviews John Mearsheimer about his new book, “The Israel Lobby,” which claims that
“the United States has been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state [Israel]“, and further that U.S. Middle East policy is driven primarily by the “Israel Lobby,” defined as a “loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.”[2]” (Wikipedia)
While he doesn’t come right out and accuse him of having an exaggerated obsession with the Israel lobby, he does make him look kind of ridiculous with some choice rhetorical questions like: “How does the Israel lobby influence United States policy to make the United States the largest single supplier of arms to Saudi Arabia?” or “In the LA Times, you said the Israel Lobby is not pernicious in any way. If so, would you describe this book as something of a valentine to the Israel Lobby?”
Fresh, Israeli organic produce shipped to your door
Posted on October 5, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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Or-gani is a new Israeli farm dedicated to providing fresh, affordable organic produce that you can even have delivered to your door! In addition, the farm is open to visitors, and they have plans to open an on-site coffee shop. And somewhere on their site they mention organic beer.
Or-Gani is an organic farm established by a group of friends who were “tired of eating chemical laden crap for vegetables.” Read more»
Street and Graffiti Artist in Israel - Profile of AME72
Posted on October 4, 2007 • By Deborah Kantor
Category: Art and Culture, Featured | Tags: | 1 Comment
A few weeks ago we published our first article in a series on the graffiti and street art scene in Israel. Today we are interviewing one of Tel Aviv’s most popular street deviants, AME72, who is well known for his loveable little Lego character that seems to pop up everywhere around Tel Aviv.
We’ll take a look at how long he’s been doing it, why, where and what he’s working on at the moment. Read more»
Multinational conglomerate 3M to expand activities in Israel
Posted on October 3, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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Apparently, 3M is about more than just Post-it notes and Scotch Tape (there ain’t nothing that can’t be fixed with a little Scotch Tape!), and its Israeli office is experiencing significant growth.
In 2006, the Israeli branch of 3M grew by 35%, and as a result 3M announced that it would be expanding its business here. Read more»
AT&T buys its first Israeli company
Posted on October 2, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
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AT&T is buying its first Israeli company: Interwise, a web conferencing solutions company. The price: $121m. While this may seem like a windfall for Interwise, it’s not really a great deal for the company’s investors, who’ve poured nearly $100m into the company in 5 financing rounds over 13 years. According to Haaretz.com, some shareholders won’t even cover their original investment. You win some, you lose some. Read more»
October Israel Entrepreneur and Networking Scene out of control
Posted on October 1, 2007 • By Rebecca Markowitz
Category: Miscellaneous | Tags: | Leave a Comment
It used to be that during Sept-Oct-Nov, the whole country would shut down in anticipation of the holidays, then shut down for the holidays, and then shut down to recuperate from the holidays. Projects would be delayed, ulpans would be cancelled, and work would be optional. But things have changed, and thanks to Facebook and new networking websites, there is more going on this month than fingers to count on, so here’s the list. Maybe we’ll even see you at a few of them. Read more»
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