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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

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Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. The ministers also unanimously approved Steinitz’s proposal to implement a calculation system that would increase the government’s annual expense rate from 1.7%

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

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Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. A bit like Silicon Valley.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

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What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value.

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