Trend data in August-October 2011: Point to a rise in import of goods from EU and Asian countries. Point to a drop in export of goods to USA

Starting August 30, easyJet will operate 4 weekly flights between Geneva and Tel Aviv as part of an expansion of its network

The Alliance will provide beginning October six services instead of seven - four to north Europe and two to the Mediterranean

This is a drop of three places for Israel since the last ranking. Qatar, Portugal and Cyprus were ranked as less corrupt than Israel

The improved New Sirius Service, which starts operating at the beginning of March 2008 on a weekly basis, includes two separate slings

The 2007 index showed an improvement in Israel's standing from last year, rising to 30th place out of the 180 countries surveyed, while in 2006 Israel was ranked 34. This year's score rose to 6.1 out of 10, compared with 5.9 in 2006

The report also shows that trade with the 15 old EU members was up by 34% from US$16.8 billion in 2003 to US$22.6 billion in 2006