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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

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In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys. Sophisticated investors and tech leaders are bullish on Israel But don’t take it from me. What is important for them now in the context of Israel is a permanent ceasefire.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

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Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

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Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development. By Ben Bakhshi. The base of our industry is weakening.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter May 2011 Edition

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As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. Israel’s economy grew 4.7% In April, the Bank of Israel raised its 2011 growth forecast to 4.5%

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

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This is a good time as ever to examine whether financial focus is now shifting towards Impact as an opportunity for companies, and how technologies that intentionally tackle social and environmental issues are becoming business models with strong returns. The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%. and big data.

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Ten Takeaways from Deloitte’s 2010 Israel VC Indicator Survey

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D eloitte Touche in Israel produces a Venture Capital and Private Equity survey every other quarter in an attempt to identify trends within the venture capital arena, give a summary of VC expectations of the Israeli VC community for the next six to twelve months. fund raising in Israel.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter April 2011 Edition

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As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. The IMF also predicted that unemployment in Israel will drop to 5.5 ISRAELI ECONOMY TO EXPAND 3.8

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