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 | | “What drives us is the desire to improve and excel, as well as the desire to build things by ourselves”- Check Point Founder, Chairman & CEO, Gil Shwed |
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 | | "With a world-leading development and production facility, Kamada’s vision of developing life-saving biopharmaceuticals is rapidly becoming a reality," Ralph Hahn, Co-Founder of Kamada.
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 | | Netafim is a Global leader, expert in smart water solution for agriculture, enabling to grow more quality crops with less resources, (water energy, money, land) by offering: global agronomic knowledge & personal coaching, state of the art technology & intense experience.
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 | | Keter Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers and marketers of plastic consumer products and a global trendsetter in household, outdoor storage, garden furniture, and in do-it-yourself (DIY) products. |
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 | | "We are excited with the progress we have made …especially in recovered energy generation, which has experienced increasing interest as the need for energy efficiency begins to play a greater role in combating global warming." Dita Bronicki, Founder and CEO of Ormat. |
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 | | "Iscar is an amazing company run by amazing people. I don't get many opportunities to invest in companies like that." Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, September 2006 |
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 | | "Teva faces a challenging and exciting era. Under (New CEO and President, ShlomoYanai's direction, Teva will strengthen its leadership position in the global pharmaceutical market and will reach even greater heights." - Mr. Eli Hurvitz, Chairman of Teva's Board of Directors |
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 | | ZAG –Stanley Israel is a worldwide innovative leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of high quality consumer and professional tool storage products in plastic, metal, and fabric for the DIY market and professional channels around the world. |
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 | | "This simple outpatient focused ultrasound procedure will be replacingsurgery as we know it . . . MR guided focused ultrasound is a tremendous leap forward in the treatment of uterine fibroids." Prof. Wladislaw Gedroyc, Consulting Radiologist, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK |
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| Multinationals |
 | | " The Israeli unit is an inseparable part of the company and enables us to provide the technological advantage that differentiates us from our competitors and enables us to expand our market share" Michael R. Splinter, President and CEO of Applied Materials,January 2007 |
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 | | ”Israel is an incredible opportunity for us. It provides a growth engine for innovation," said Richard Nottenburg, Motorola's executive VP chief strategy officer.
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 | | "Intel Israel continues to grow, which will translate into a big drive to recruit workers in a variety of technological fields," said Maxine Fassberg, general manager of Intel Israel, and Vice President at Intel Corp (2008). |
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 | | GE was one of the first international companies to establish a presence in Israel, when General Engineers Ltd. was founded in 1950.
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 | | "We find in Israel many leading technologies. This is an excellent combination: High-Tech coming from Israel and access to international markets provided by German companies."
- Dr. Heinrich Von Pierer, CEO & Chairman, Siemens (2006)
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 | | “HP is committed and will continue investing... in the future”- Bernard Meric, Vice President and Managing Director, HP Europe
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 | | "Israel is the most exciting place I know. It’s great to come here and see the dynamic generation of ideas, the motivation to be first and the professional daring of Israeli start-ups." Buell Duncan, General Manager, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM, in an interview to InformationWeek-Israel |
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 | | "Our Tel Aviv facility is particularly important because the mainframe talent and technology that we have there is not easily found around the world… We have had tremendous success here and (with) the products they produce and the great technology environment that exists in Israel," Jim Grant, the Vice President of BMC Software Service Management Business Unit 2006 |
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 | | Unilever Israel offers a wide range of popular brands and products including Skippy, Dove, Strauss Ice Cream, Telma, Knorr, LUX, Hellmann’s, Cif, Badin, Mazola, Pinuk, Blue Band, Lipton, Clik, and Beigal & Beigal |
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 | “Israel has a very advanced technology sector. Innovative Israeli software companies such as A2i and TopTier have proven to fit well into SAP's long-standing organic growth strategy. With a current staff of around 800 SAP employees in Israel, the country is home to our fourth largest development center and SAP remains strongly committed to its operations here." SAP CEO Henning Kagermann, April 2006 |
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 | "It's no exaggeration to say that the kind of innovation going on in Israel is critical to the future of the technology business . . . For Microsoft, having an R&D center in Israel has been a great experience . . . The quality of people here is fantastic." - Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software architect of Microsoft (2005) |
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 | | “There are projects for which it won’t matter if tens of thousands of engineers work on it or if a group of 100 engineers with a range of talents do all the work. Israel has such groups.” Clifford Meltzer, Cisco Systems Senior VP Network Management Technology Group |
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