Articles by February, 2019

The IMTM - International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) 2019 International Tourism Exhibition opened for the 25th time at booth 2 at the EXPO in Tel Aviv and continues throughout the day. This year, a record number of exhibitors, over 50 countries and 20 tourism ministers from around the world attended the exhibition. "The largest tourism exhibition in the Middle East being held for the 25th time in Israel is an excellent way to celebrate the peak year of incoming tourism to Israel," said Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. "This year, historic records were broken - more than 4.1 million...

Symantec announced the acquisition of Luminate Security, an Israeli start-up that develops a platform for secure access to enterprise applications in a single-value connection. According to estimates, the scope of the transaction is more than 200 million USD. Lumenate was founded by experienced entrepreneurs. The company's CEO, Ofer Samadry and, Leonid Belkind and Eldad Livni former Check Point's employees. until recently the Israeli company raised $ 14 million. Luminate has 40 employees in Israel and in the UD

Gross domestic product (GDP), at constant prices and after seasonal adjustment, rose by an annualized 2.2% in the second half of 2018, according to the first estimate released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday, following a 3.4% In the first half of the year and an increase of 4.3% in the second half of 2017. The decline in growth is explained by the stagnation in exports of goods and services, the decline in investments and the slowdown in expenditure on private consumption, and mainly in the purchase of vehicles

Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen and British Trade Minister Liam Fox signed a trade and partnership agreement between Israel and Britain, which regulates the continuity of trade relations between the two countries prior to Britain's departure from the European Union. Minister Fuchs' arrival at the signing ceremony attests to the importance of business relations between the two countries and to London's satisfaction with the tightening of trade relations. The British Ambassador to Israel David Curry and the Head of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Ministry of Economy and...

The 8200 Alumni Association launched an initiative to provide organizations with the tools and platforms for recruiting and empowering women in the fields of high-tech, entrepreneurship and venture capital, finance and consulting. The program helps companies recruit women to senior positions and promote women from the organization to senior positions. The 8200 Alumni Association is an organization that works out of a vision to preserve the legacy of Unit 8200, to support the community of graduates and graduates of the Unit in their civic lives, and to enlist the graduates' network for the...

A research group from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University, under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shashua, has succeeded in proving mathematically that methods leading the field of artificial intelligence can help to understand phenomena in quantum physics, "This is an exceptional event in which the leading scientific journal in physics publishes the work of researchers from another field - computer science, and we are at a turning point in which computing power and methods Modern artificial intelligence, allow cross-domain contribution, and for example will...

A historic achievement for Israel at the Oscars: Israeli director Guy Nativ won the Academy Award in the Short Feature Film category for his film "Skin". "Good night Israel," Nativ said in a winning speech. "My grandparents are Holocaust survivors, and the intolerance that they suffered from can be seen today in the United States and Europe, and this film is about education and about teaching your children a better way." Nativ is the first Israeli director to win an Oscar since 1978, when director Moshe Mizrahi won his French film "All Life Before Him." Screenwriter Sharon Maimon, who was...

In Breslona, ​​the third day of the MWC cellular exhibition takes place. The Israel Export Institute said that the Israeli pavilion is a pilgrimage site. One hundred and twenty Israeli companies are participating in the exhibition this year, sixty-five of them in the Israeli pavilion. The exposure of Israeli technologies is arousing great curiosity among visitors. So far, more than two thousand business meetings have been held with representatives of the giant companies Samsung, Google, Mercedes, Volvo, Toyota Varizon and many others