Topic: Israel

Internet Marketing and SEO Israel Blog

Internet Marketing and SEO Israel Blog on Optimization Strategy discusses SEO China, SEO Japan, SEO Russia and international SEO as well as strategies for hi-tech, medical device, exporting companies, hotels and others. ...READ»

Finding True Might

Following up on my last blog post about the importance of moral force in conflict, we see today a clear and naïve ignorance of this law. While one may win conflict with physical force, sustaining the victory requires immense energy ...READ»

Technology: Sharing Breakfast

Yesterday was a fantastic day. :D I got to meet Kfir Pravda, who was here for a few hours in NYC Friday morning awaiting his connecting flight to Israel. I was familiar with Kfir from blogging as well as our involvement with the ...READ»

Technology: Sharing Breakfast

Yesterday was a fantastic day. :D I got to meet Kfir Pravda, who was here for a few hours in NYC Friday morning awaiting his connecting flight to Israel. I was familiar with Kfir from blogging as well as our involvement with the ...READ»

Does Your Childhood Home Dictate Your Design Choices?

Get on the couch: A design psychologist says your grandmother’s garden and your father’s den influence your sense of place in ways you don’t understand.READ»

Punch! Kick! Gouge! (And Other Ways to Lead)

Executives who are hungry for leadership are taking weekend courses at Dani-Hi, Israel's world-famous school for counterterrorism training. We'd tell you more -- but then we'd have to kill you.READ»

Flower Power: World's First Hybrid Solar-Gas Turbine Turning on Soon

The world's first solar hybrid power plant is set to open on June 24 at Kibbutz Samar outside Eilat in southern Israel. When operating at full capacity, the flower-like AORA plant will supply 100 kilowatts of electric ...READ»

Car Charging Stations at the Ready--In Israel

Shai Agassi’s electric car service station company, Better Place, was the subject of a page one business story in today’s New York Times. While Agassi estimates his dream of a network of such stations in the US is unlikely ...READ»

Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building

The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in IsraelREAD»

An Attack on a Bus

Today's newspapers carry the awful news of yet another attack on a bus in Israel that killed 20 people. Every front page of every daily carries the horrifying photos of that attack. But can you imagine what it would be like to manage ...READ»

Better Place Unveils EV Battery Swap Station in Japan

Israeli electric car infrastructure company Better Place inched closer to creating an electric car revolution last night when it unveiled its first automated battery swap station in Yokohama, Japan. The $500,000 car wash-like ...READ»

Better Place, Renault Sign Mega-Deal for 100,000 EVs by 2016

Better Place, a Silicon Valley electric vehicle infrastructure startup, has stepped up its game--first with the announcement of an in-car piece of software that checks battery charging options, and now with news of a partnership ...READ»

Proclamation

STATE OF NEW JERSEYEXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTWHEREAS, those who dedicate their time, effort and skills to help others are among the most valued members of any community; andWHEREAS, the State of Israel Bonds in Highland Park, New Jersey, ...READ»

Road Rules - Rule 14

Travel plans mean backup plans.READ»

Fashion Jewellery meaning in the Jewish tradition

Star of DavidThe emblem was used in Israel in Roman epoch, but it seems to have become associated with Judaism in particular only in later centuries. In the 17th century it became a trendy ritual to put the Star of David on the outer ...READ»

Driving in the Valley of the Shadow of Death

It's the management problem from hell: How do you run a company whose customers and employees are being killed?READ»

Scandal At Davos

In tomorrow's newpapers, you'll be reading about a controversy that has erupted at Davos. ''Global Agenda,'' the magazine of the World Economic Forum, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel. In an email to participants ...READ»

Uganda, the Entrepreneur's Paradise

Want to start or run a new business? You'll be surprised which countries are the most entrepreneurial.READ»

Electric Cars in Hawaii: The Future of Transport or Just Another Monorail?

The technology of networked electric cars is right on. The business model for it is still unproven. Will a firm called Better Place change that?READ»

• The Smart Garage: Crossroads of the New Green Economy

Not Your Typical Cuppa Joe: The Espresso Cup Reimagined

Israeli students redesign the familiar espresso cup, to beautiful effect.READ»

Food Fight!

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Branding Better Place: Building an Electric Vehicle Movement

A grassroots-level campaign helps to introduce and explain a new award-winning system for charging and using electric vehicles.READ»

• Designers Accord Case Studies

High-Tech Asphalt Sucks Energy From Your Car to Power Other Stuff

When Innowattech introduced its so-called "piezoelectric road"--a 10-meter piece of asphalt embedded with piezoelectric generators--late last year, critics complained that extracting kinetic energy from cars is akin to highway ...READ»

What's the News About the Nightly News?

This month, Anne exchanges email with Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor, NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw.READ»