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2016 has been a turbulent year in the global economic markets. The slowing Chinese economy caused the markets to react negatively in January as the Chinese GDP Annual Growth Rate slowed to 6.7%. The U.K.’s decision exit the European Union (aka the “Brexit”) caused severe reactions on all the major …
Fitch Ratings, one of the “Big Three” international credit rating agencies alongside Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, has upgraded Israel’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings by one notch to A+ from A, with a stable outlook. Fitch’s announcement was released on Friday, November 11th and now has Israel ranked …
When author Mark Twain visited the Land of Israel (then still called Palestine) in 1867, he penned impressions of what he witnessed in his book “Innocents Abroad”: “A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. We reached Tabor safely. We never …
King David wrote in the first verse of the 144th Psalm “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle”. David was a man who knew many battles, although he hardly went looking for them. Most people do not desire to be at war with others, nor …
Can a tiny startup-nation less than 70 years old, with less than 8 million residents, change the world? Israel is clearly saying “yes”. An enormous number of inventions and innovations have come out of Israel in recent decades, more than from many larger, established nations combined. Israel is shining its …
Many investors want to invest in innovative Israeli startup companies before they go public. But some don’t have the high amounts of capital necessary to participate in a venture capital fund, and others don’t want the high risk associated with investing in a small private company with little regulatory oversight …
Investing in Israeli stocks and bonds is done on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Israel’s single national exchange, though accounts at Israeli brokerages and banks. This is where Israeli corporations raise capital to finance investments and activities, and where the government bring the public into its companies as they are …
Mazor Robotics stock price has grown over 500% in the past four years. The reason? There are over 500,000 spinal surgery with implants each year in the U.S. alone. Many are done freehand, without computer technology nor guided robotics systems. While spinal surgery is clearly medical science, it is also an art. One …
“I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.” (Isaiah 41:18) The Land we’ve been given here is a dry land. It is mostly desert, and it’s difficult to grow crops in the arid …
Israeli military companies are ranked among the 100 largest defense contractors in the world, according to weekly American magazine “Defense News”. The magazine, that covers security industries around the world, recently published a report of the largest defense companies globally in 2015. There are four Israeli companies among them: Elbit Systems, Israel …
