Business and Economy
The World Bank predicts Iran’s GDP would shrink 3.8 percent in 2019, or 0.2 percent less than its last report in January; the International Monetary Fund projected a 6 percent decrease this year.
“In this day and age, international and interdisciplinary collaborations are vital to the future of science and engineering,” said Professor Boaz Golany from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, adding that the research “will benefit people not only in the U.S. and Israel, but worldwide.”
The Economic Research Department of the Israel Hotels Association recently published data for February 2019 on hotel stays compared with the same period over the past two years, and the evidence is clear: Incoming tourism to Israel is decidedly on the rise, and Chinese tourists are helping make it happen.
The GEN-350, which offers a supply of fresh water on site, is a technological innovation of the Israel-based company Watergen.
In a massive report in Germany’s “Bild” newspaper, Albert Reimann Sr. and Albert Reimann Jr. were reported to have used Russian civilians and French POWs as forced laborers when the Nazi regime reigned, according to documents recently brought to light.
It plans to start rolling out the Israeli technology at restaurants in America this year, followed by expanding to its franchises abroad.
Gaza activists launched the “Want to Live” campaign on March 14, protesting the high cost of living, rising prices and unemployment in the Gaza Strip.
Exports of computer chips to China increased by 80 percent to $2.6 billion in 2018 with Intel Israel constituting at least 80 percent of sales.
Over the last few years, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has promoted a project to develop the abandoned churches and monasteries along the Jordan River in order to attract more visitors to the area.
The flourishing Mediterranean seaside city tied with Los Angeles.
The U.N. envoy to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Nickolay Mladenov, said in a statement: “I strongly condemn the campaign of arrests and violence used by Hamas security forces against protesters, including women and children, in Gaza over the past three days.”
“This is not the Israeli occupation forces!!” Fatah Central Committee member Hussein al-Sheikh tweeted, in response to images and videos of aggression against protesters. “It is the Hamas gangs that are terrorizing and suppressing the hungry in the Gaza Strip.”
