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The project “Shake Hands with Israeli Industry”, initiated by the Israel Canada Chamber of Commerce, generated a great deal of interest amongst Israeli companies, many of which requested to participate. Adv. Yehuda Raveh, the President of the Chamber, visited Canada in December. He met with Canadian businessmen and convinced them to support the project by recruiting volunteers to assist Israeli companies. The project will consist of two tracks: the first - to distribute the profile of the company to a list of Canadian businessmen who have expressed an interest in assisting Israeli companies; the second track - to find a volunteer contact person to escort the Israeli company for a period of time. The project will be publicized in Canada in January in order to find volunteers.
A New Government in Canada.Paul Martin announced the composition of his government on December 13, 2003. For information about the new government and its cabinet members press here. The Government’s new Justice Minister is Professor Irvin Cutler, a dedicated Jew and committed supporter of Israel. We hope that he can facilitate an improvement in Canadian-Israel relations. According to reports in the Israeli press cooperation between Israeli and Canadian companies is growing. Israeli investment in revenue producing Canadian real estate has been increasing and makes Israel a major player in the Canadian real estate market.
Happy New Year and Pleasant Reading,
Amos Cohen,
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Mr. Ephraim Shoham, Israel’s Economic Attaché in Canada met with the Vice President of the prestigious hotel chain “The Four Seasons”, who agreed to look into the possibility of buying Israeli products. Producers of bedroom accessories, bedding, bathroom accessories, cleaning materials and cosmetics, furniture of various sorts, internal communications systems, dedicated management software, specialized quality foodstuffs (chocolate, honey etc.); in short any manufacturer that thinks he might have a product suitable for the hotel chain is invited to contact Allan Mendoza at telephone 03-514-2877 at the Export Institute.
The Canadian Embassy in Israel will operate two booths at the CeBit Exhibition in Hanover Germany on 18-24 March 2004 as meeting places for Canadian and Israeli firms. One booth will be dedicated to computer programs and the other booth will be dedicated to research and development. The booths are designed to encourage cooperation between Israeli and Canadian companies. For additional information please contact Ms. Jessica Nachlas at the Canadian Embassy in Israel: Jessica.nachlas@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
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15/12/2003 The Ambassador of Israel attended a reception for the new Government of Canada organized by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. The reception was held in honor of Canada's new Prime Minister Paul Martin and his new Cabinet. 4/12/2003 Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical treasures exhibition opened in Canada's capital. The Canadian Museum of Civilization launched an exhibition titled: 'Ancient Treasures of the Dead Sea Scrolls'. The exhibition will be open until the end of March and has been received with enormous interest by the Canadian media, academics, clergy and the general public. 21/12/2003 Embassy of Israel - Hanukkah
candle lighting in the Canadian Parliament.
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CIIRDF upcoming Board of Directors Meeting - to take place in Tel-Aviv on January 29th 2004. This will be CIIRDF's 18th board meeting at which five joint R&D projects will be presented to the Board for approval. The meeting will follow a dinner the night before hosted by the new Canadian Ambassador to Israel - Mr. Don Sinclair. Ongoing collaboration towards the Consortia-to-Consortia collaboration is starting to bear fruit:
Agriculture R&D Collaboration last November, the Volcani Institute led an Israeli scientific team in a 3-day Canada-Israel discussion on research cooperation in agriculture, agri-foods and agri-biotech. Over 12 Canadian scientific leaders came from across Canada to participate. Bio2004 in Israel - CIIRDF in collaboration with the Israeli Economic Mission is putting together a major Canadian delegation to Biotech 2004 that will include Canadian companies associated with Pharmacology, Stem Cells, Bio-diagnostics, Bio-photonics and Agri-biotech
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Report on Israel Tourism Activities | ||||
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Pledge Card Campaign: “I Care and I’m Going” This was the declaration that greeted Jewish Canadians in more than 100 of the 120 synagogues of all streams of Judaism across Canada during the High Holidays. Rabbis also encouraged their congregants to support Israel by visiting Israel during the coming year. Since the campaign began, the pledge cards have been filling the mailbox at the Israel Government Tourist Office in Toronto.
The Ministry of Tourism recently hosted a journalist from the Toronto Star, Vivian McDonald, who has already written two very positive articles on tourism to Israel. An additional journalist was hosted at the Dead Sea Marketing Weekend (Nov. 20-24) which highlighted the tourism products available at the “lowest spot on earth”. Three Canadian journalists from newspapers across Canada were hosted in early December. These are all part of the on-going efforts of the Israel Government Tourist Office (IGTO) and the Ministry of Tourism to provide exposure for the Israeli tourism industry in the Canadian media.
IGTO Canada has been working closely with evangelical Christian organizations in Canada to encourage Canadian Christians to visit Israel. As a result, 2000 Canadian Christians are planning a major gathering in Israel in March 2004 under the banner “Israel - You Are Not Alone”.
Tourism to Israel has started to rebound from all over the world, with 944,000 arrivals between January and November 2003, an increase of 23% over the same period in 2002 and already more than the total for 2002 – 862,000. The 'millionth tourist' mark was reached earlier in December. Tourism from Canada was also up by an impressive 22% over the January-November 2002 period, with 26,400 arrivals.
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44th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Science - February 25-26, 2004, Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel Annual Conference for Aerospace Science in the field of aircraft, aerospace and space technologies. http://www.aeroconf.org.il/conf/ For information, please contact Jessica Nachlas, jessica.nachlas@dfait-maeci.gc.ca. MEDAX - March 1-3, 2004 , Tel
Aviv, Israel Cebit 2004 - March 18-24, 2004,
Hanover, Germany BIO-ISRAEL 2004 - May 4-6, 2004,
Tel Aviv, Israel Environment 2004 - June 8-10, 2004, Tel Aviv, Israel. Environment 2004 is Israel's annual international trade fair and conference on business opportunities in the Israeli environmental technologies market. For more information contact: Mona Mansour-Ashkar: mona.mansour-ashkar@dfait-maeci.gc.ca or visit: www.environment-israel.com Canadian Activities and
Successes: Israel is one of Canada's largest and most diversified export markets in the Middle East, and the only country in the region with which Canada has a free trade agreement. Canada’s trade with Israel has more than doubled since the start of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) in 1997. In fact, in 2002 two-way trade reached $1 billion for the first time ever, and Canadian exports were close to $400 million. Negotiations were recently successfully concluded to expand the CIFTA, which opens up market opportunities for Canadian exporters in a wide range of agricultural, and agri-food products. For more information on new market opportunities in the Israeli agricultural and agri-food market, please contact Mona Mansour-Ashkar at: mona.mansour-ashkar@dfait-maeci.gc.ca Nortel Networks in Israel was recently awarded $US93 M contract for GSM operator Partner Communication's 3G Wireless Network, the first in Israel. Nortel beat Nokia, Ericsson and a joint group comprising Siemens and NEC of Japan for the deal. Bombardier and Aecon are part of four consortia that passed the preliminary screening stage for the Tel Aviv Light Railway Project. The $US 1.5B BOT (Build, Operate, Transfer) project will be the country's largest infrastructure project in coming years.
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Provided by the generosity of the “Ifat” Company
The Multi-Lock company won a tender to install security and locking devices for the Control Tower and Vancouver Airport. The tender is worth 10 million shekels (Hazofe, November 24).
Pilat Media company, a supplier of programming for
broadcast management, signed a contract worth 17 million dollars with the
largest Canadian television company – CTV
A Canadian investor made the best offer to buy “Burger Ranch” (Globes, December 11)
Charles Weingart, the General Manager of RBC – the
largest bank in Canada – visited Israel and expressed an interest in
investing in Israel in the areas of technology and bio-technology
Alon Therapeutics company, which develops clinical and Para-clinical solutions for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Glaucoma and other diseases raised 2.5 million dollars from the Canadian risk capital company: Neuro-Discovery. (Globes, December 17)
Edusystems, which specializes in the development of Distance Learning technology, won a tender from the Montreal Education system. The tender is worth two million dollars. (Globes, December 17)
Profemax Company will buy commercial centers in Montreal worth 6.65 million Canadian dollars (Gobes, December 15)
The Lipman company received a security authorization from the “Norit 292” Canadian Association. “Norit 292” secures financial transactions. Officials at Lipman anticipate sales of 10 million dollars during their first year of activity. (Yediot Ahronot, December 30)
Arkia Airlines sold five Boeing 737 aircraft
to the Canadian Airlines “Norta” for 13 million dollars (Maariv, January
2)
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