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Contents
From the Desk of the Economic Attaché in Toronto Headlines From Israeli Newspapers If you do not wish to continue receiving this
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What is New at the
Chamber
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Meeting
With The Canadian Ambassador in Israel
On May 3rd members of the Chamber met with Donald Sinclair,
Canada’s ambassador to Israel.
Managers from 12 Israeli companies and the embassy’s economic attaché
participated in the meeting. The
participants presented ideas and suggestions for advancing the trade relations
between the two countries.
The “Shaking Hands” Project
The number of Canadian business
people who have volunteered to help Israeli companies establish business
connections in Canada has risen to 75.
The Chamber’s website has information
about the
volunteers. Seminar “Doing Business in Canada” The Seminar took place on May 10th with the
participation of the Canadian ambassador, Donald Sinclair. The Chamber and the Israel
Export Institute jointly organized it and about 40 people participated. In his welcoming remarks, Helik
Assia, the Director of the Export Institute noted that Canada is one of
Israel’s principal markets and asked the participants for suggestions on how
to use the “Megadim” budget to advance marketing and business activity in Canada.. Pictures From the Seminar
The Seminar was Sponsored by:
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Report From Ottowa
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On Wednesday, May 12th 2004, representatives of Canadian
and Israeli defence companies
successfully concluded a one-day partnering event in Ottawa. The Canadian
Defence Industries Association (CDIA) sponsored and hosted the event. The partnering day allowed participants to explore opportunities in
establishing joint ventures in research, development and marketing around the
world in addition to doing business in Israel and in Canada. It also provided
an opportunity for Israeli companies to showcase their longstanding experience
in the realm of public safety while the Canadian defence and security
industries demonstrated their solid technological capabilities. Holocaust Remembrance
, April 19th In the Shadow of Death
follows the story of the Elsner family of Stuttgart from the nineteen
thirties, as the Holocaust evolves from the disturbing new policies of the
Third Reich, through the horrifying attempt to annihilate an entire
race. Puddle’s non-Jewish, volunteer cast brilliantly realizes the
deeply sensitive and personal story that binds Puddle’s work, and teaches
about the corrosive effect that racism and hatred has on humanity. The play was brought
to Ottawa and staged before an audience of Canadian schools and the general
public, in a joint effort of the Embassy of Israel and the Ottawa inter-faith
dialogue with the support of: Most Rev. Marcel
Gervais of the Archdiocese of Ottawa, the Right Rev. Peter R. Coffin, Bishop
of Ottawa, the United Church of Canada, the Ottawa Presbyterian Church of
Canada, Interfaith Ottawa, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, the
Soloway Jewish Community and B’nai Brith Canada. Israel Independence Day concert and reception,
27.4.2004
Ambassadors, Members
of Parliament, Senators, diplomats and senior Canadian government officials
gathered in Ottawa to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day with the renowned
Israeli concert pianist Carmen Or, followed by a reception. Upcoming events
Israeli film festival at Canada’s capital,
end of June 2004. The
Canadian Film Institute (CFI) will host a week of current Israeli films. Ottawa folk festival –
July : The
Embassy will bring an ensemble of ethnic music from Israel. . |
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From the Desk of the Economic Attaché in Toronto
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Establishment of Joint Ontario and
Israel R&D Fund We met with the directorate of the
Ontario Ministry of Industry and Trade on May 7th in order to
advance the idea of establishing a joint R&D Fund, first broached by
Industry and Trade Minister Ehud Olmert when he met with the Premier of
Ontario last November.
Participants in our meeting included the Deputy Directors of Industry
and Trade of the Ontario Ministry of Industry and Trade and their assistants
as well as the President of CIIRDF Dr. Henry Rothschild and Mr. Gabi Regev. Our hosts were indeed interested
in the idea of a joint R&D Fund but have budgetary limitations for the
current year. It was agreed to
establish the Fund this year with the initial funding of projects to begin in
2005. We will prepare a draft agreement
for the establishment of the Fund (on the basis of the CIIRDF Agreement) and
pass it on to the Foreign Trade Authority in order to do the staff work
necessary before we present it to the Ontario Industry and Trade Ministry for their
approval. Israeli Products Fair in Toronto
On April 25th an Israeli
Products Fair took place in Toronto.
We arranged for the importers of Israeli products to take part. Special thanks to Sharon Herman for
her assistance. The Fair was a
great success. More than 1000
people visited the Fair including businessmen and local distributors of
Israeli products.
Meeting with Consumer Products
Marketing Firm in Montreal In Montreal I met with the owner of
an electronic consumer products marketing firm (including games). He agreed to market Israeli products
in this area. Israeli companies
interested in contacting this gentleman are invited to contact the Chamber. Winter Olympics in
Vancouver Canada has begun preparing the
2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We have begun to investigate the possibility
of integrating Israeli products in the games, especially in the fields of
security and electronics. Meeting
with Canadian volunteers
Sandra and myself met with seven
Canadian Jews who have volunteered to help Israeli companies penetrate the
Canadian market, each in his area of expertise. This was in the framework of the “Shaking Hands” project
initiated by the Chamber of Commerce.
I informed them about our goals.
This was followed by a comprehensive discussion about the ability of
volunteers to help Israeli business, voluntarily or for a fee. Meeting with Canadian-Israeli Businessmen
David Harnik, the Jewish National Fund
representative in Montreal, initiated a meeting with 15 Israeli businessmen
(in industry, real estate, services etc) living in Montreal on April 21st. The Consul General, Mark Attali,
Sandra and Winston took part. It was agreed that Sandra and Winston would
maintain ongoing contact with these people in order to benefit from their
connections on behalf of Israeli business.
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BIO2004 - San Francisco, California - June 6-9, 2004 Global Petroleum Show, June
8-10, Calgary. Farnborough, June 19-25, UK. International Aerospace and
Defense Show. There will be an upcoming tender
for an onshore gas pipeline in Israel Annual Joint Convention of Medical Laboratory Technologists 4th WORLD
CONGRESS ON HEART DISEASE - NEW TRENDS IN RESEARCH &DIAGNOSIS D Wireless & Mobile WorldExpo Hosted by WowGao, July 21
& 22, 2004, Toronto, Canada |
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The Canadian Armed Forces are the next target of the Israel defence industry…the Canadians are beginning to implement a plan to purchase 5 billion dollars worth of equipment (Globes, May 25) The candidates to purchase the Jerusalem Post are the Canadian firm Can West, Flato-Sharon and Haim Saban. Can West Global Communications is Canada’s biggest media company (Globes, May 18) Shalkiss is dismissing workers, raising 15 million
dollars and preparing for another offering. The company has recently canceled its membership in the
Toronto Stock Exchange. The
company specializes in packaging of semi-conductors (Globes, May 14) Skyline – the Canadian
construction company owned by the Israeli Gil Boltreich – is planning a stock
offering. The size of the
offering has not yet been decided or whether it will be done by way of the Israeli or the
Toronto stock markets or both. (Globes, May 13) Gazit-Globe: 40% growth in profits for the Canadian company FRC. (Yediot Ahronot, May 1) Daniel Meron has been appointed
the first analyst in Israel of the Canadian bank RBS, which is the strategic
partner of Tamir-Fishman Investments (Yediot Ahronot, May 5) Air Canada reports increased activity of 50% over a
comparable month last year. The
company anticipates increased traffic on its Israel-Toronto line this coming
summer. (Globes, May 3) The Edgar Company purchased an
office building in Toronto for 25 million Canadian dollars. The building is 15 thousand square
meters and is mostly occupied. The Lipman Electronics Engineering
Firm announced today that the terminal “Nurit 8000s” has earned the approval
of Dumos, the Canadian IT Security Laboratory. The Lipman terminal is meant to connect banking systems.
(Globes, April 21) Lavie Timesec from the Tim Group has won a tender to install a time management system in the CLMI Canadian Retirement Home and Welfare Services chain. The deal is estimated to be worth 15 million shekels (Boker Tov, April 2) El Al is pressuring tourist wholesalers not to reserve seats on the charter flights of the Canadian airlines Sky Service. El Al intends to increase the number of weekly flights to Toronto to 8 and to implement 5 continuation flights to Los Angeles (Ha’Aretz, April 20) The Canadian company Telus will
implement the E-Series platform in the next generation of its network. (Boker
Tov, April 20) Polar Investments sold its
investment in Optic Canada for a profit of 31 million shekels (Globes, April
19) Air Canada is offering a 6% discount
to customers of American Express (Globes, April 15) |
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The International Trade Centre(ITC) is a United Nations body dealing
with the promotion of world trade in developing countries. ITC’s major areas of activity are
training, research, gathering of statistical data and publications. The ITC site enables one to find a
great deal of information according to countries and subjects. Every country on the site has comparative
statistics, trade contacts, and references to sources of information about
foreign trade. The ITC Trade
Information System (TIR) contains references to 15,000 information sources
dealing with foreign trade. |
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