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The understandings include the allocation of $230 million for the home front; the treatment and recognition of wounded IDF veterans; and funding for a scholarship program for those who completed military or national service.
SeeTree co-founder and CEO Israel Talpaz said “when I retired from Israel’s intelligence community, I hooked up to agriculture with the goal of bringing the expertise, technologies and capabilities that I learned in the defense world to the world of agriculture.”
Unilever’s North American headquarters are in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and employs 1,600 people.
It kicked off a global advocacy effort that features an online campaign urging people to call on Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever, not to align with the BDS hate movement targeting Israel.
“Israel is a rainbow nation. Every person can be themselves,” said Miguel, a student at Gonzaga University in Washington, D.C.
“By virtue of its wayward subsidiary, Unilever—a massive international conglomerate—risks potentially crushing financial consequences in terms of its ability to receive investments from, or do business with, the majority of U.S. states,” said Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project.
Town Superintendent Donald Clavin said the ice-cream maker’s statement “showcases the company’s anti-Israeli stance” and is supported by the “BDS movement—a movement I consider anti-Semitic.”
It will wait at least until the new Israeli government passes a budget, likely by November,
The interior minister urges consumers not to boycott the Israel franchisee and says the government is working to overturn the parent company’s “anti-Semitic” decision to halt sales in certain areas.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said that he has written to 35 U.S. governors, noting that the decision by the company violates individual states’ anti-BDS legislation.
The famed race, which each year covers 3,413 kilometers (2,121 miles) over 21 stages in 23 days, featured eight riders wearing the Israel Start-Up Nation jersey.
“As a former high-tech CEO, I can tell you that the absence of Internet infrastructure simply prevents the establishment of companies,” said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the dedication ceremony.
