Israel was ranked 32nd in the organization's index, a slight improvement from the year before, when it ranked 33rd

World Economic Forum (WEF) published last week its 2009 annual report on enabling trade around the world

The move is part of a week-long action announcing a series of protests in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Benoni

This from Category 1 to Category 2. A delegation of FAA had been in Israel for several days and came up with negative conclusions

Israel is classified by the survey as “Moderately Free” and is ranked three places lower than in 2006. According to the index the freest economy is Hong Kong

In its recent edition, published February 6th, Forbes rated Israel in 28th place (among 135 countries rated) on its first Capital Hospitality Index of investor-friendly countries

In January 2005 import of goods (excluding diamonds) totaled $2.8 billion, export of goods (excluding diamonds) totaled $2.0 billion and the trade deficit (excluding diamonds) totaled $0.8 billion