76% of the residents in Israel are Jews, 20% are Arabs and 4% are Others; The rate of growth of the population of Israel in 2004 was 1.7%, the lowest since 1990; During 2004 there were 143,000 babies born in Israel; In 2004 approximately 20,000 New Immigr

In accordance with its commitment to constantly improve its services, Zim announces that AUX service, a joint venture between Zim and Lloyd Triestino will start calling the port of Wilmington N.C. instead of Norfolk VA

Diamond controller Mr. Shmuel Mordechai said last week that Israel's diamond industry continued its trend toward significant growth in November. According to spokesman for the Ministry of Industry

Egypt confirmed last week that Israel the United States and Egypt will sign on Tuesday an agreement on Qualified Industrial Zones.

A legal claim for NIS 8 million was lodged last week in the Tel Aviv District Court by Israeli airline Israir against El Al Israel Airlines. Israir alleges that El Al had abused its monopolistic power on the Tel Aviv-New York route, and thereby damaged Is

According to sources at the Ministry of Transport, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) decided last week that Israir may operate charter flights to Thailand

Mr. Shraga Brosh, chairman of the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute, said that exports of communications equipment in 2004 will rise 16.5% to $2.53 billion. Brosh made the comment last week at the opening of the Telecom Israel 2004 exh

Ststistical data released by the CBS show that imports, excluding diamonds, for the period January – September 2004 was us$ 23.2 billions. 39% came from the EU, 17% from the USA , 17% from Asia