Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Lyle Plocher
While not necessarily Real Estate news, the opening of the Middle East’s largest IKEA store is “newsworthy” information. Of course for some people who intend to move to Israel from Countries who already have IKEA stores, they may want to live close to IKEA who knows?
The new store covers 34,000 sq meters and includes a 500 [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Lyle Plocher
Besides the fact they are both located in Israel, the other thing they have in common, is they were both mentioned in the e-news today. Obviously, the outlying communities in Israel don’t get mentioned as much as the major cities of Israel, when it comes to online news publications in Israel like www.israelnationalnews.com , but today’s version of [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
No country in the world is immune to the problems brought on by the global economic crisis, but one country is somehow growing, changing and in strange and maybe unexpected ways, benefitting from the global economic turndown. That country is Israel.
An article appeared earlier this month in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition, by Sara [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
330,000 tourists visited Israel this past month, an all-time high for October, and a 9% increase over October 2008, Israel’s record tourism year.
This was the first month this year that tourism registered an increase over last year – and Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov attributes it largely to positioning Israel as the Holy Land with Jerusalem [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
Source: Globes Online – Adrian Filut – October 22nd, 2009
The Consolidated State of the Economy Index, compiled by the Bank of Israel, was up sharply in September, jumping 1.2%.
The index is up for the fourth month in a row, and strengthens the sense that the economy reached a positive turning point.
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
Check out the great photo essay covering the arrival of 204 new immigrants at the Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday.
Israel National News Photo Essay
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Posted on August 9th, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
The Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Yafo has unveiled a pocket sized guide in English which will enable visitors to explore Tel Aviv-Yafo in a very thorough manner, street by street, district by district.
According to the Association’s Director-General, Eti Gargir, ”The book divides Tel Aviv-Jaffa into five distinct areas – the North, City Center, the Heart, the [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
A Nefesh B’Nefesh chartered plane safely delivered 238 new Immigrants from the United States and Canada to the Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday. 89 new immigrants from the U.K. were due to arrive later in the day.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and scores of singing and dancing well-wishers greeted the olim. Netanyahu told the olim that “for [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
The latest section of Israel’s Highway 6 having been completed, the road now extends from Yokneam (near Haifa) in the north all the way to just north of Beersheva, a total of 87 miles.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) dedicated the extension of the highway, which now allows residents in Zichron [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Lyle Plocher
On the eve of Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics said the population in Israel has grown by 125,000 people since last Independence Day, bringing the total population in Israel to 7,411,000.
You can read some more in-depth statistics in an article at jpost.com
Photo by Ariel Jerozolimski. Israelis celebrating Independence Day in 2008 in Tel [...]
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