During the visit a seminar will be held by the Israeli export institute on doing business in India

The rise reflects a recovery in tourism after the Second Lebanon War last summer. IAA noted that Airline traffic rose by 7.5% to 6,786 flights

Exports to the EU was up in the first half by 14% and reached a total of US$ 1.5 billion, compared to the parallel period in 2006

His letter to the Israeli PM followed an announcement by A.P. Moller-Maersk Group that it plans to suspend its direct shipping service to the US from Haifa Port in October

The closure of the Nitzana border crossing stopped all cargo movements from Israel to Egypt. The sudden closure had not been coordinated with the exporters

The CBS noted that the Israeli R&D figure topped all members of the OECD where the top per capita spender on R&D was Sweden with 3.7%

These long-range planes will be the flagship aircraft in the EL AL fleet flying to Israel from destinations in North America and the Far East

The figures show rapid and strong growth in the economy, which expanded by 1.9% in the second quarter of 2007, after expanding by a similar rate in the first quarter of the year