The weird tale of Samuel Israel III began on July 27, 2005 when he sent a letter to investors in his $450 million hedge fund called Bayou Management. The fund was shutting down but they'd get their money back. But when investors called his Stamford, CT office, they got a...
This paper analyses the main determinants of monetary policy in two emerging economies: Mexico and Israel. Due to the share feature of these countries facing currency and financial crises this study consider the alternative to incorporate a financial variable such as the level of foreign reserves in the reaction function...
In the last decade, three countries have figured prominently as cases of late-late developing countries that achieved worldwide success with their Information Technology IT industries: India, Ireland, and Israel. This paper focuses on the Israeli case and argues that unlike India and Ireland, Israel's competitive advantage in the IT industries,...
Using a newly constructed data set, this paper compares sources of funds and investment strategies of venture capital VC funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK. Sources of VC funds differ significantly across countries, e.g. banks are particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and...
The role of organizational reputation OR was studied as a source of sustainable competitive advantage SCA and superior performance, theoretically and empirically, among local authorities in Israel. Using the LISREL VIII program, the paper proposed a mediation model that argues for a relationship between OR and financial performance, mediated by...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to...
European American Arms, in cooperation with Zastava Arms of Serbia, now imports The EZ series of pistol, the most recent evolution of the Zastava CZ99 line in production since the early 1990s. The CZs are the Serbian service pistol and widely exported across Europe and Asia. Exact copies of the...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] WHEN I STARTED PITCHING the idea of a trip to Israel, many people were skeptical. Israel's located in the Middle East, an area of the world renown for its instability. Terrorist attacks, constant wars, hijacking, and general unrest are all key words associated with the region....
The resignation of prime minister Ehud Olmert has gladdened most Israelis. In spite of his mounting unpopularity, he had been clinging to office using all the black arts of politics. Always a man of the right, he suddenly and cynically swerved to the left, thereby alienating his former power base....
LOS ANGELES AP -- A man suspected of being one of Israel's most powerful crime bosses is charged with using a Los Angeles gang to distribute a million Ecstasy pills and paying one of the gang's members to kill a man for stealing a large drug shipment. ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel -- Mellanox[R] Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX) (TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that Eyal Waldman, chairman, president and CEO, will present at the Jefferies 2nd Annual Technology Conference to take place in New York City on September 10-11,...
Israel's Leading IT Services Company Appointed Exclusive Israeli Partner for Aternity's Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform BOSTON -- Aternity Inc., the industry's technology leader in end user experience management solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, today announced an exclusive partnership agreement in Israel with Ness Technologies, a global provider of...
ASHKELON, Israel AFP — Police on Wednesday released an Israeli they held overnight for joining international activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory. US-born Jeff Halper, who was detained when he walked across the Erez border crossing between Gaza...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli scientists on Wednesday unveiled a programme to put thousands of fragile fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls online, using infrared imaging to reveal previously illegible portions of the biblical documents. In order to protect the millennia-old documents only a few of the parchment fragments,...
TEHRAN AFP — The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said on Wednesday that Israel is too vulnerable to Iran's longer-range missiles to dare launch an attack. "Our strategic assessment shows that if the Zionist regime took action, whether alone or with the United...
EL-ARISH, Egypt AFP — Egyptian authorities have arrested 33 African migrants, including four children, who were trying to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security offical said on Wednesday. "The group, which included four children aged three to eight, was arrested on Tuesday evening in central Sinai...
BEIRUT AFP — Egypt has urged Israel to stop making threats against Lebanon, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on a visit to Beirut on Wednesday. "We reject any threat to the unity and sovereignty of Lebanon... especially from Israel," he told a news conference after meeting...
EL-ARISH, Egypt AFP — Egyptian police have found a cache of weapons and explosives in the Sinai desert which they believe was destined for the Gaza Strip, a security official said on Wednesday. A tip-off led police to the cache where they found two plastic bags filled with...
ASHKELON, Israel AFP — An Israeli who sailed to the Gaza Strip with a group of pro-Palestinian activists was in police custody on Wednesday after returning to Israel overland from the besieged enclave. US-born Jeff Halper was being held in a cell in the southern Israeli city of...
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- MutualArt.com (http://mutualart.com/), the website that introduced content aggregation and personalization to the art public, today announced the opening of its Research and Development Center in the high tech hub of Tel Aviv, Israel, to service its rapidly growing membership. Five months after launch,...
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