October

2010

          Israel Trade Commission Newsletter     
  Israel Trade Commission

  Tel:   61-(0)2-93880382

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  info@Israeltrade.org.au

  PO Box 2626

  Bondi Junction NSW 1355

  AUSTRALIA

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Israel Trade Mission to Australia

The Israel Trade Commission together with the Israel-Australia Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a delegation to Australia. The delegation will be led by Dr Orna Berry and will feature several Israeli companies across a variety of industries. For more information and a full list of the participating Israel companies as well as details of the Delegation’s Sydney Reception, please click here
Business Opportunities

All new Business Opportunities from Israel are now conveniently listed on our website . The Business Opportunities range across all industries, and we are also able to source products or companies for you if they are not featured in our Business Opportunity listings. We also archive all of our Business Opportunities so you can look at previously listed companies as well.To view our list of Business Opportunities please Click here

  The Land of Milk and Honey and Natural Gas
 Following the developments in the last few months, Israel is on the verge of absorbing impressive amounts of local extracted natural gas into its energy market. The updated map of Israel’s offshore gas potential include 3 major fields: Mari-B field located offshore the towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon, Dalit and Tamar fields located offshore the city of Haifa and the town of Hadera, and the Leviathan field, south-east of Tamar.
For more
click here
   Israel in Outer Space

An Israeli has yet to moonwalk – and the country’s only astronaut Ilan Ramon perished on a tragic NASA mission in 2003 – but Israel has big ambitions to jump into the billion-dollar space industry.

The Israel Space Agency and the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington to promote cooperation. The two agencies plan to work together in new fields connected to earth and space sciences, life sciences and additional fields in which there is joint interest, to read more

  Bank of Israel most credible central bank

“We think the Bank of Israel has emerged from the crisis as one of the most credible central banks Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa”, said Citibank analyst David Lubin this July. Lubin also predicts that Israel’s interest rate will reach 2.25% by the end of 2010, after two more rate hikes.
The Bank of Israel was first in the western world to raise interest rates over a year ago, in the midst of the economic crisis, thus signaling that Israeli recovery was already underway. Israel received at that time many compliments for it’s monetary policy from Dr. Nouriel Roubini , Merrill Lynch, The Wall Street Journal, and many others. Over the last year, the Bank of Israel interest rate was gradually raised from 0.75% in September 2009 to 1.75% in September 2010. to
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   Spotlight on Amiad Water Systems
Amiad Australia (AA) is a fully owned subsidiary of Amiad Filtration Ltd. The company was established in Australia in 1979 – and has been in business for the last 30 years. They supply Amiad Water Filtration, Air valves, Control valves, and complete solutions of a wide range of water treatment plants that include: Reverse Osmosis, Ultra Filtration, Media, Iron removal, EDI and much more. For more click here

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