Posted on October 18, 2009 by samser
An upstart program gives the hopelessly unemployed the tools – and the motivation – to find rewarding careers
In their down time, the unemployed play charades. They laugh, they mingle, they pour each other coffee. But they also dress in formal office attire and carry with them copious notes from their latest meetings. After all, just [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2009 by samser
In Dubi Lang’s and Yudke Friedman’s ideal world, every red-blooded Israeli would be obsessed with breasts. Turkey breasts, that is.
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Posted on March 25, 2009 by samser
This is rich — Netanyahu as Robin Hood, taxing the rich to rain money on the poor, and Barak playing the sidekick to Netanyahu. It must still be Purim.
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Posted on December 3, 2008 by samser
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been dancing a jig to the sounds of falling markets around the world, but now he’s finally facing the music at home.
Filed under: 2008, Economics, Middle East | Tagged: Ahmadinejad, economy, Iran, oil | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 13, 2008 by samser
The collapse of the haredi economy is an opportunity to fix the flaws that are causing it.
Filed under: 2008, Culture & Sport, Economics, Jewish World | Tagged: economy, haredi, kollel, Torah | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 29, 2008 by samser
Rehovot’s last remaining green fields come into view, unfolding beneath the sheet metal and wire fence elevator that is shimmying up the side of an unfinished apartment building. Rafi Halaf doesn’t notice. He’s focused on this skeleton of a structure, this tower of concrete strewn with sawdust and sand. There’s something inside he wants us [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2008 by samser
Close to 1,000 Israeli companies are doing business across China, tapping into the world’s fourth-largest economy and marking the beginning of an eastward shift in Israel’s economic and diplomatic interests.
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by samser
A set of Shmuel Ovadia’s buoys would exploit one of the world’s most reliable – and most potent – sources of energy
Filed under: 2008, Economics, Energy & Environment | Tagged: Shmuel Ovadia, wave energy, wave power | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 1, 2008 by samser
That Israel’s economy has been humming along is the worst-kept secret in the world’s business circles
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Posted on December 7, 2007 by samser
John Brown, a born-again Christian, has spent the better part of the past 25 years pursuing his belief that the Bible points to vast petroleum deposits in the Holy Land, and that God has sent him to find them
Filed under: 2007, Economics | Tagged: John Brown, oil, petroleum, prophecy, Zion Oil | Leave a Comment »