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A billion Indians love us, a billion and a half Chinese hold us in high esteem. We’re having a little problem with Sweden but we’re working on it.

(Attributed to President Peres but we have to admit that we’re not sure of its provenance)
 
·         If you’re judged by the company that you keep then Mizrahi Tefahot Bank is doing very well. Not only has prestigious magazine, Global Finance chosen it as the "Bank of the Year in Israel" it has also placed it on a list of 25 banks chosen as the best for 2010 in developed markets. The Israeli bank is ranked among financial heavy-hitters like J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC and the financial hitters don’t come heavier than that. Our other banks are doing pretty well too and we’ve said this before and we’ll say it again; Israel has the potential to become another Switzerland – only better.

 

New Emphasis on ‘Peoplehood’ Reflects Economic Reality and Russian Roots
By Gal Beckerman
Published March 03, 2010, issue of March 12, 2010.
[Source : The Jewish Daily Forward]
Natan Sharansky knows he’s disturbing the status quo. Days before the most recent meeting of the Board of Governors, the body that oversees the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sharansky, its relatively new chairman, declared that the agency’s traditional mission had outlived its usefulness.

By Martin J. Raffel · March 1, 2010

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The organized American Jewish community and our non-Jewish allies, with broad representation from across political and religious lines, are poised to launch a major initiative to counter the campaign to delegitimize Israel.

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, March 2, 2010; A15

[Source : Washington Post]

Toward the end of last year, Jimmy Carter apologized for some of his very harsh statements about Israel. In an "open letter to the Jewish community" -- and with a vagueness that ill becomes him -- he airily mentioned criticisms that "stigmatize Israel" but omitted his own contribution: the implication that Israel is, like the racist South Africa of old, an "apartheid" state.
 

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“We love this Country!”

(Us at GN Israel. We mean it and we thought it needed to be said. [See all the items below])

·         The Israel Consumer Confidence Index rose by three points in January 2010 to 95.8 points, after falling in December and November 2009. Now that’s GN. Everything during January this year points to economic expansion and the positive figures reinforce consumers' feeling that the economy is on the rebound. The balance of optimists over pessimists [we love those categories] when it comes to the current economic situation rose by 5.7 points in January.

[Source : CNN ]

Watch this clip on how Israel is contributing to the aid relief in the Haita disaster.