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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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. “Israel is known for its strong capabilities in technology and science. Brazilian President Luiz InĂ¡cio (Lula) da Silva gave Israeli President Shimon Peres his final approval for a free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay).

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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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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. And with technology as a really important lever to improve the world.

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