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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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Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 “Israel is known for its strong capabilities in technology and science. Electronics components maker TTI Inc, a Berkshire Hathaway company, bought Net-Aye Technologies Ltd.,

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