Japanese Ambassador to Israel Jun Yokota announced last week that the Japanese government travel warning against travel to Israel by Japanese businesspeople and tourists, would be lowered as from this week

The Inter-ministerial Tenders Committee for the construction of Highway 431 from Rishon LeZion to Modi'in announced today that the Danya Cebus consortium (“Netivei Hayovel”) has been awarded the tender

In March 2005, import of goods (excluding diamonds) totaled $3.2 billion, export of goods (excluding diamonds) totaled $2.3 billion and the trade deficit (excluding diamonds) totaled $0.9 billion

The European technology journal "Red Herring" published it's "Red Herring 100 Europe", a selection of the 100 companies which, according to the journal's editorial team, are the most promising private companies in Europe and Israel. The listed companies p

The Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBI ) reported last week that Israel's foreign trade deficit rose 8.9%, or $63 million in March 2005 to $774 million over March 2004, (66% higher than in February and 34% higher than in March 2004)

Minister of Industry trade & labor Ehud Olmert and Japan's Minister of the Economy Trade and Industry Shoichi Nakagawa signed last week in Tokyo a document calling on Japanese businesspeople to visit Israel and expand their ties with Israeli companies

David Hermesh chairman of Haifa Port's management board told the participants that "The package of services has evolved out of our clients' logistic needs". For technical reasons, the new package is, at present, only available to the port's bigger custome

Eitan Rub, Head of the Israel Tax Authority, announced last week the nomination of three new divisional directors within the minimized Directorate of the tax authority