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Mazor Robotics to begin trading on Nasdaq next week
MZOR ) will begin trading on Nasdaq Capital Market next Tuesday. The company will list American Depositary Shares (ADSs), each of which will represent two shares traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The ADRs will be traded under the ticker "MZOR". Trading in the ADSs will be through the Bank of New York Mellon. Mazor develops and sells the Renaissance surgical navigation robot ...
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Housing cabinet approves 150000 rental apartments
The housing cabinet unanimously approved the construction of 150,000 rental apartments at its first meeting yesterday. "Lowering housing prices is one of the government's great tests," said Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. "We have a housing emergency, which threatens an entire generation of young people who are afraid to go out into the world if they ...
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Ryanair considers Israel-Krakow flights for school groups
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair Ltd. (ISEQ: RYA, LSE: RYA, NASDAQ: RYAAY) is considering initiating flights between Ben Gurion Airport and Krakow in Poland, to serve the high demand for educational trips to Auschwitz and other former death camps by Israeli students. At a press conference earlier this week, Ryanair deputy CEO Howard Millar said that the airline had been mulling flights to Israel ...
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Support Grows in Europe for Listing Hezbollah as Terror Group
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah meets with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in this 2005 photo. (Photo: Supreme Leader website) (CNSNews.com) - Reversing long-held positions, the governments of Germany and France have both signaled their support for the European Union to designate Hezbollah - or at least its purported "military wing" - as a terrorist organization. The ...
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Israeli Settler Hits A Palestinian Youth in South Nablus
Nablus, May 23 (BNA) - A Jewish settler ran oevr a palestinian youth in Beita village crossroad , south of Nablus, Ghassan Daghlas, the settlement file official in the northern West Bank said on Thursday. Daghlas added that the israeli settler ran over palestinian youth marwan zakariya assouss, aged 16 at the crossroad of beita village , south of nablus noting that the palestinian youth was ...
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Huge circular structure in Sea of Galilee a mystery to Israeli archaeologists
File - In this April 14, 2011 file photo, a boat is by the jetty of the Capernaum National Park in the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70 meters, was found through a sonar scan at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee in 2003. Now, archaeologists are beginning to put together grant proposals and funding requests in a bid to ...
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Syria crisis Friends of Syria call on Iran and Hezbollah to withdraw
o Iran and Hezbollah urged to pull out of fight for Qusairo US backs UK's bid to amend EU arms embargooSyria negotiates with Russia over attendance at talks o Opposition gathers in Turkey to decide on ...
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PM Netanyahu Remarks at Start of Meeting US Secy. of State Kerry
PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of his Meeting with US Secy. of State John Kerry (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Thursday, 23 May 2013), in Jerusalem, made the following remarks at the start of his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry: "John, ...
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Kerry Continues Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding another round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at getting the two sides to restart their stalled peace ...
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France backs call to put Hezbollah on EU terror list
Official say Paris is ready to support British initiative to blacklist armed wing of Hezbollah on EU's list of terrorist organizations; France has been cautious of such a move fearing it could destabilize ...
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Peres to Sarkozy at breakfast Friends are friends
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to Israel primarily to receive an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College had a breakfast meeting on Thursday morning with President Shimon Peres, whom he knows well and with whom he had enjoyed previous meetings in Jerusalem and Paris over the past decade, spoken on the phone, and exchanged correspondence.If Sarkozy, instead of being ...
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Formula 1 UEFA Maccabiah all on way to Jerusalem
attractions forming the backdrop along the route. Some of the greatest professionals in the field will be arriving for the event including a team of drivers and technicians from Ferrari in Maranello, Italy.In addition to Formula One cars, Ferrari Challenge cars will also participate in demo drives, as well as drift cars with high horsepower V8 engines and other sports cars. The road show will ...
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Kerry Returns to Israel in Peace Push
US Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to Israel Thursday as he continues a push to reignite peace negotiations. Making his fourth trip to Israel since he began his tenure as the US chief diplomat in February, Kerry was due to arrive later Thursday and head straight into talks with top Israeli and Palestinian Authority leaders. The meetings come after a long day of diplomacy in ...
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Israels Defensive Abilities Undiminished in Golan
Israel's ability to deter attack on its positions in the Golan Heights remains undiminished despite an uptick in fire from the Syrian side of the ceasefire line, a defense official said on Wednesday. "The good news is that the continued stability of the Golan Heights (and) the deterrent power of the Israeli army have not been weakened," senior defense adviser Amos Gilad told ...
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Shapir Engineering plans NIS 1b IPO
Shapir Engineering Ltd. , one of Israel's largest contractors, is planning an IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) to raise hundreds of millions of shekels at a company value of almost NIS 1 billion. The company is owned by four brothers: Israel, Harel, Gil, and Chen Shapiro. The brothers withdrew plans for an IPO of Shapir Engineering three years ago when a sister company, Shapir ...
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Massive submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists
The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated. It's thousands of years old -- a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored. The problem is -- it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of ...
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British Animosity Toward Israel Disguised Anti-Semitism
A senior Israeli minister described the "animosity" shown towards the state by British media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and academics, as "disguised anti-Semitism", in an interview published in Thursday's Daily Telegraph. Yuval Steinitz, Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister, said he was "concerned" by relations between the ...
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Biosensors buys Spectrum Dynamics
Spectrum Dynamics , part of the Medinvest Group of Prof. Shlomo Ben Haim, has been acquired by Singapore company Biosensors International Group Ltd. for $51 million, including milestone payments on future achievements. The deal will be closed today. Spectrum Dynamics is a medical device company focused on personalized molecular imaging and applications in nuclear cardiology. As part of the deal ...
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Shekel weakens on speculation of further rate cut
The shekel is weakening against the dollar and euro in morning inter-bank trading as speculation grows that the Bank of Israel will cut the interest rate by a further 25 basis points to 1.25%. The shekel-dollar exchange rate rose 1.20%, compared with yesterday's representative rate, to NIS 3.709/$, and the shekel-euro exchange rate rose 0.28% to NIS ...
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Israeli property group Azrieli Q1 net profit edges up
TEL AVIV | Thu May 23, 2013 2:44am EDT TEL AVIV May 23 (Reuters) - Real estate developer Azrieli Group posted slightly higher net profit in the first quarter, boosted by an increase in rent and high occupancy rates at its properties in Israel. Azrieli, which is controlled by Canadian businessman David Azrieli and has an investment portfolio in Israel that includes several shopping ...
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Senate US must back Israel in case of Iran strike
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led Senate voted 99-0 - with one senator not present - on Wednesday night, on a resolution that the United States should support Israel if it were forced to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat. The measure also urged Obama to strengthen enforcement of existing sanctions on Iran. Earlier Wednesday, a US House of Representatives committee approved legislation ...
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Israeli Source Amnestys Balanced Report Ridiculous
In a report released Thursday, international leftist human rights group Amnesty accused both Israel and Hamas of committing "war crimes" during Operation Pillar of Defense last year. The accusations were made in the organization's annual ...
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Protest Against G4S Outside Israels Ofer Prison 22-5-2013
British-Danish security firm G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel, including those housing children and "administrative detainees" held without charge or ...
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Hezbollah may be hurting itself report
NEW pennants hailing the "martyred" men of Hezbollah, Lebanon's main Shia party-cum-militia, fly in abundance in its stronghold in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon. By some tallies more than 30 of its fighters have perished since May ...
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Google Says Gush Etzion Residents Live in Palestine
Residents of Gush Etzion, located in Judea and Samaria near Jerusalem, were shocked recently to see that, according to Google, they live in "Palestine," according to a Wednesday report in the Yisrael Hayom ...
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Biggest construction project in Israeli history
The Port of Ashdod is the gateway to the economy of Israel, it has played a central role in the development of the state and will play a central role in future development, hence the reason for an ambitious $500 million expansion project currently underway in two stages (in the picture, green represents stage 1 and brown stage 2).
The Port of Ashdod is currently undergoing the largest construction project ever undertaken in the history of Israel. In 1999, Israel news media reported that the government wanted to double the cargo capacity of Ashdod, an ambitious construction project was therefore envisioned, involving the building of new piers, new docks, warehouses and cargo handling equipment. It was to take place in two stages, with the total project costing around $500 million. Read more
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