This was achieved despite a slowdown in activity reported in the global diamond industry in the fourth quarter of 2011

Israel is ranked 25th out of the 34 OECD member states, ahead of only Turkey, Italy, and Greece

The order is an upgrading of an order from two years ago to build ten TEU13,000 container ships

Israeli companies are increasingly looking eastward to compensate for falling demand from Europe and the United States

As this is its first visit to Israel, the ship was greeted at the Haifa Port with jets of water sprinkled by two Israeli ships

Hebrew University was ranked 57th in a prestigious annual ranking of the world's universities, a survey that was published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China

The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute (IEICI) reported last week that India fell to Israel's Ninth largest export destination in the first half of 2011. India held the second place of largest export destination for many years