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PALESTINIAN MEAT AND LIVESTOCK SECTOR HAMPERED BY SECURITY AND DISEASE
THE MEAT and livestock sector in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories is suffering because of tough Israeli security restrictions, the development of Israeli settlements and a recent outbreak of bluetongue disease.
Dr Abdellatif Mohammed, deputy general director of the Palestine Agricultural Relief Society, told globalmeatnews.com…
MUNIB AL-MASRI: BUSINESSMAN, LEADER, AND NATION BUILDER
In the West Bank, everyone calls him ‘The Godfather’ or ‘The Duke of Nablus’ – Munib al-Masri, 79, is the richest Palestinian, the patriarch of a prominent Palestinian family that has produced bankers, consultants and politicians, and also one of the most influential.…
NEW METHOD TO INCREASED SUNSTANCE SOLUBILITY RELEASED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESEARCH project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel, has developed a new manufacturing process that will enable the cosmetics industry to mix thus far insoluble substances with water. Researcher Katy Margulis-Goshen says ingredients such as oil can be dissolved in water if broken into nanoparticles.…
ISRAEL PONDERS WHETHER TO EXPORT NATURAL GAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL, PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT; AND HELENA FLUSFELDER, IN JERUSALEM
IT is not often that a country that has serious energy security issues gets to choose about whether it wants an energy export industry – but the State of Israel is in this relatively happy situation.…
SMALL COUNTRIES SHOW THE WAY WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) INFRASTRUCTURE: ISRAEL AND DENMARK
BY HELENA FLUSFELDER, GERARD O’DWYER
A PLAN to install an electric car network has been approved by Israel’s government, making this small Middle East country a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) technology.
The project is a joint venture between Renault-Nissan, which will provide the electric vehicles, and a Silicon Valley, USA-based start-up project Better Place, which will operate the re-charging grid.…
RELIGION AND SMOKING DON'T ALWAYS MIX WELL
BY PAUL COCHRANE, AHMAD PATHONI, GAVIN BLAIR, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, WANG FANGQING, HELEN FLUSFELDER, KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
THE BRITISH writer Oscar Wilde wrote: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.…
FIRST EU JUSTICE COMMISSIONER MAY REALISE GOAL OF CREATING EUROPEAN PUBIC PROSECUTOR POST
BY DAVID HAWORTH
IT is, perhaps, a sign of the European Union’s (EU) growing role in fighting crime: from February, it will have its first justice Commissioner. David Haworth reports from Brussels on how a new 27-member European Commission that should take office on February 9 might fight commercial crime.…
ISRAEL ON FRONTLINE AGAINST TERRORISM, BUT ON BACK FOOT REGARDING MONEY LAUNDERING RULES
BY PAUL COCHRANE
FOLLOWING the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Israel was quick to come out and identify itself with the ensuing US-led ‘war on terror’. This was not surprising, given the Arab-Israeli conflict and the attacks Israel has sustained from militant Palestinian groups.…
DELEK BREAKS THE MONOPOLY IN ISRAEL'S ENERGY MARKET BY BECOMING A DOMINANT IMPORTER
BY HELENA FLUSFEDER, in Jerusalem
FOR the fledgling state of Israel in 1951, being dependent on two foreign companies for its supply of petrol was hardly ideal, especially at a time of war when the companies had reduced their activities in the country.…
MIDDLE EAST DENIM MARKET DOMINATED BY LABELS IN RICH GULF AND ISRAEL, AND STYLE IN POORER LEVANT
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Damascus and Beirut, and HELENA FLUSFELDER, in Jerusalem
INTRODUCTION AND THE GULF
THE DENIM sector in the Middle East is as diverse as it is fragmented, with strong demand in the Gulf and Israel for major brand names and the latest trends, while in the less economically developed parts of the Levant international brands are of less importance than style.…