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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

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Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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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. I haven’t killed anyone lately, but I’d imagine that factors like range, noise, etc. might play a factor. Different tools for different jobs. So I asked him, “What are you optimizing for in this round?”

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Mike Michalowicz

As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Tonya Sowles.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

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. “Israel is known for its strong capabilities in technology and science. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva gave Israeli President Shimon Peres his final approval for a free trade agreement between Israel and the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay).

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