It seems appropriate on Israel’s Independence day, to talk about the growth of the Jewish state, since 1948. The Central Bureau of Statictics released a report on Sunday that Israel has reached the nearly 7.59 million threshold, of which 5,726,000 of those individuals are Jewish. Some other interesting figures in the CBS report included the [...]
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A poll conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics in Israel, among Israelis aged 20 and up, showed that 84% of those polled were satisfied with their apartments and their general residential area. The highest level of satisfaction with the residential area was recorded in the city of Rishon Lezion (87%), followed by Ramat Gan (86%) and [...]
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According to an article at Ynetnews.com by Sever Plocker, Israel could reach the $30,000 per capita GDP mark as early as this summer. Plocker also states that “the overall gross domestic product, which is the economic value of all the goods and services produced in Israel, will reach roughly $230 billion”. There are a number [...]
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According to figures just released by Israel’s Ministry of Finance, Israel’s economy grew against all odds, showing a .7% growth in GDP for 2009 and a 4th Qtr growth of 4.9% in GDP. The GDP per capita, reached 102,969 NIS, the first time in Israel’s history that the 100,000 NIS bar has been passed. Other positive [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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