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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

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Trade in 2010 between Israel and the other countries that comprise Mercosur, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, reached $1.8 As part of a plan launched by the Israeli government in 2010 to attract financial services sector firms to Israel, the government has granted Citi 93 million shekels ($25 million) over five years to help finance the center.

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Raising Money: What are you optimizing for?

This is going to be BIG.

If you’re Martin Blank , and you need to kill the President of Paraguay, you might need to use a fork. Go out halfway to nowhere on your milestones, or having a prior round that was raised so high that you couldn’t fulfill your promise, and expect your next financing to be a really tough slog. might play a factor.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

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