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Intel Now Has 20 Israeli Vice Presidents

03.02.19|Hagar Ravet and Lilach Baumer
12% of all patents submitted by Intel in 2015-2018 originated in Israel, with the number rising to 13.5% in 2018
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Intel to Invest $11.9 Billion in Israeli Fab Operation Expansion

29.01.19|Omri Milman and Meir Orbach
Intel currently employs 12,700 people in Israel, including the 1,100 people employed by automotive chipmaker Mobileye
חבילות דואר ישראל 2

Israel Announces First Five Startups Selected to Pilot Tech in State-Owned Companies

28.01.19|Meir Orbach
First announced in June, the program is intended to provide local tech startups with access to large-scale infrastructure for testing, and state-owned companies with access to innovative technology early in the development chain
תל אביב קו רקיע חוף

Israeli Government Expenditure on R&D Second Lowest of OECD Countries

28.01.19|Lilach Baumer
The country's spending on national R&D as a percentage of GDP was 4.4% in 2016, highest of all OECD countries, but almost all of the capital comes from the business sector
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Moia to Supply Vehicles for Volkswagen’s Israeli Robotaxi Venture

24.01.19|Tomer Hadar
Update: a spokesman for Moia stated the company will not provide cars for the venture
קורקינט חשמלי תל אביב 6

How Tel Aviv Became an Unlikely Sandbox for Non-Israeli Tech Companies Looking to Expand Services

23.01.19|Orr Hirschauge and Lilach Baumer
One of the densest tech innovation hubs in the world, the small size of the predominantly Hebrew-speaking Israeli-market used to mean technology services came here late. 2018 signaled a wind change
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China Blasts U.S. Over Warnings on Israeli Infrastructure Projects

22.01.19|Adi Pick
In a press event Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying called the American warnings “ridiculous”
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12,000 Israeli Police Officers to be Outfitted With Body Cameras

21.01.19|Lilach Baumer
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the cameras will supply the country’s police with the “ultimate evidence”
קאר שולץ מנכל טבע

Israel Tax Authority to Demand Over NIS One Billion From Teva

16.01.19|Omri Milman and Tomer Ganon
Teva did not pay taxes in Israel for the decade preceding 2014, saving NIS 20.6 billion in tax benefits
יפן אלי כהן Hiroshige Seko

Israel and Japan in Talks to Enter a Free Trade Agreement

15.01.19|Adi Pick
Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Hiroshige Sekō met Tuesday with his Israeli counterpart
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2018 Saw a Drop in the Number of Israeli Tech Companies Acquired

15.01.19|Lilach Baumer and Hagar Ravet
Three of the four largest deals included in the list aggregated by IVC and Meitar for 2018 concern publicly traded companies, one involves an Israeli subsidiary of an American corporation that was sold as part of a larger deal, and two of the buyers were hedge funds
עמוס מתן מנכ"ל אירונאוטיקס

Aeronautics Executives Investigated for Alleged Insider Trading

08.01.19|Tomer Ganon and Golan Hazani
The company specializes in the development of unmanned aerial Vehicles (UAV) for military use and has over 45 defense, military, and homeland security customers worldwide
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The BIRD Foundation to Invest $7.3 Million in Eight Joint U.S.-Israeli Projects

08.01.19|Meir Orbach
The foundation will invest across a variety of technological domains including agtech, medical devices, digital health, and defense
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Israel Refloats Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal Initiative

08.01.19|Lior Gutman
The planned pipeline, first announced in 2013, was intended to span over 200 kilometers on Jordanian territory
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RwandAir to Launch Direct flights between Israel and Rwanda

07.01.19|Tomer Hadar and Adi Pick
In September, Israel and Rwanda agreed to open mutual embassies
חממה גידול קנאביס

Chinese Delegation to Explore Cannabis Research Opportunities in Israel

07.01.19|Tzally Greenberg
A Chinese delegation will be landing in Israel next week to meet with Israeli cannabis researchers and companies
מייסד סופטבנק מאסיושי סון

SoftBank Ventures Invests in Fourth Israeli Startup, Venture Partner Says

03.01.19|Meir Orbach
Once completed, the transaction will bring the fund’s total investment in Israeli companies to about $20 million, according to Benjamin Weiss, venture partner at SoftBank Ventures Asia
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Israel Approves CRS Tax Regulations, With a Caveat

03.01.19|Omri Milman
Israel's parliamentary finance committee approved on Tuesday a series of statutes that will make life a lot harder for tax evaders in the country. Philanthropic Jewish orthodox community lending institutes will be exempted
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Online Gambling Company Playtech Reaches Tax Settlement in Israel

03.01.19|Dror Reich
The London-listed gambling software developer will pay $32 million following an audit for the years 2008-2017