Yes, we’re aware that “I’ll be back to curb carbon emissions” and “Terminating climate change” are a bit of a cliché, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has landed in Israel to do just that.

What is it the factor that has made Israel one of the world’s largest incubators of technology? How did Israeli companies make it to the 2nd place on the NASDAQ traded companies? and what can the U.S economy learn from it all? The answers to these questions and more will be discussed tonight at the [...]

Just last week, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon, opened a special seminar for Israeli and Palestinian businesswomen.

Green technology is a hot topic around the world–nowhere more so than in Israel. Limited natural resources have spurred the development of ideas so revolutionary they’re only being full utilized now. (Like, who knew drip irrigation and solar power would make headline news?)

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) this week brings us the story of SCP Vitalife, a venture-capital firm that invests in American and Israeli medical technologies. Thus far, it’s been pretty successful helping companies get off the ground. For example, one of its biggest successes has been MediGuide, which developed a method to track the [...]

Photo: Getty Images This year’s list of the worlds 2,000 largest companies, compiled by Forbes, contains 13 Israeli companies, up from just 10 last year. The companies listed cover a range of different fields, including banking and financials (Bank Leumi, Bank HaPoalim, IDB Holding, Israel Corp., Israel Discount Bank, Africa-Israel Investments, Mizrahi Tefahot bank, FIBI [...]

Photo: Getty Images A group of Israeli teenagers from Afula took part in the Skills@Work championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 11-13 March. This competition takes place on a national and international level and encourage students to think creatively, like an entrepreneur. Though they had competed together in the preliminary rounds, the teams during the [...]

Natural Gas Processing PlantPhoto: Wikimedia Commons Who knew!? Israel has natural gas reserves! A few weeks ago, an Israeli-American consortium announced it had found a huge

Photo: David Shay on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons license It’s not news to us that hi-tech companies around the world have been setting up shop in Israel. We’re never sure, though, just what they’re doing in those glass buildings and what benefit we all get out of it. Well, JPost today has an [...]

Photo: Getty Images H2O is about the most important substance out there, but it’s increasingly hard to get water everywhere we need it and we’re realizing the importance of conserving as much of this resource as possible. Enter Israel’s water scientists. As an article in the Turkish Daily News points out, Israelis have made their [...]