EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson arrived last week in the Middle East for three days of talks with ministers, officials and business representatives from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan

A delegation of 25 Israel companies headed by Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor director-general Raanan Dinur visited Kazakhstan last week

Sources closed to the Mayor of Eilat said last week that Minister of Transport Meir Sheetrit told Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzkhak-Halevy that the international tender for building a new airport north of Eilat will be issued by the end of 2005

The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute said last week that it invested over NIS 5 millions to prepare the Israeli pavilion at the 46th Paris Air Show

World Bank president Mr.James D. Wolfensohn and Mr.Yechiel Assia, director of Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute signed last week an agreement to set up a Private Sector Liaison Office (PSLO) in Israel

The Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBS) reported last week, on the eve of Israel's day of independence, that the national spending on civilian research and development (R&D) in Israel totaled last year NIS 25.6 billion

On the eve of Israel’s 57th Independence Day, celebrated last week, the economic department of the Manufacturers Association of Israel (MAI) announced that Industrial exports, excluding diamonds, had grown 4,700-fold, from $5 million in 1948 to $23.6 bill

Mr. Yechiel Assia, director general of the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute said last week in a press release that 731 Israeli companies currently operate in China. Assia noted that in 2005, 96 new Israeli firms entered the Chinese ma