Author Archive for Menachem Greenfield
Menachem was previously a feature article writer for the Milwaukee Journal. He currently runs a small publishing business in Michigan focusing on books and magazines for the tourist industry. He is looking forward to writing for Jewocity and connecting with its readers. More about Menachem
Indian and Israeli Companies Sign Irrigation Agreement
Jain Irrigation, India’s major agriculture and irrigation conglomerate, signed an agreement with Israel’s Kibbutz Na’an on May 15, 2012. The two companies have jointly owned NaanDan Jain since 2007. At the time of the joint venture’s creation, Jain Irrigation had the call option to purchase Na’an Dan’s 50 percent stake if both sides agreed. The [...]
Israel Shows Off Security Sector
Israeli defense and security businesses are taking center stage this week as Tel Aviv hosts two different security conferences to demonstrate the latest high-tech gadgets for homeland security and fighting terrorism. Since 9-11, exports of Israeli security systems have climbed from $2 billion annually to more than $7 billion. Mayors and law officers from 49 [...]
Tycoon Busters Open New Front in Israeli Cottage Cheese War
Can Israelis have their cottage cheese and cheap prices, too? Israeli trust busters are sharpening their knives and are about to cut a few tycoons in Israel down in size. Israeli ministers will propose new rules to the Knesset that would bar Israeli rich folk from owning both financial institutions and real assets. Analysts say [...]
Fizzy Pop Stock Soars After Israeli Company Announces Wal-Mart Entry
Israel’s SodaStream International Ltd. stock shot up 21 percent overnight to $35.39 on news of an 84 percent first-quarter profit and an announcement that its popular home-brewed soda products will be on Wal-Mart shelves later this month. In heavy trading that shattered records for SodaStream, nearly 13 million shares traded hands overnight. Revenue doubled in [...]
Divest Yourselves From Israel Parade, Businessman Tells Boycott Groups
A Jewish business group today has demanded that boycott Israel groups be barred from the Israel Day Parade in New York City on June 3rd. “Why are Jewish groups that attempt to inflict economic damage on Israelis through BDS and blacken Israel’s image given a place in the Israel Day Parade?” asked Richard Allen, founder [...]
Israel Recruits Cowboys and Aussies for Gas Fields
Israel’s Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau is wearing cowboy boots in Houston this week in an effort to corral Texas expertise in the natural gas business. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Australian officials today to ask for assistance in developing the country’s offshore natural gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea. Israel is [...]
Investors Sue Egypt for $8 Billion for Busting Israeli Gas Deal
In a lawsuit filed today, investors in Israel, the United States and Thailand are seeking $8 billion in damages against Egypt for its decision to cancel a contract to deliver natural gas to Israel. The shareholders in the state-owned East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) company said the legal filing will highlight the claim that EMG broke [...]
Israel Losing PR War
In a behind-the-scenes look at the public relations war against Israel, Ronn Torossian, owner of a top pro-Israeli PR firm, explained how Israel is losing that PR war to the Arab states. In a nutshell, Israel is simply being outflanked, outsmarted and outspent by Arab states and organizations that are hiring top U.S. public relations [...]
Israel Leads Team to Offer Europe Energy Security
Israel, Russia, Greece and Cyprus are talking about a new and grand dream alliance to offer energy security to Europe, according to Public Service Europe. Under a complex energy plan, Israel would link new gas pipelines and electrical lines from the eastern Mediterranean into southern Greece, said Michael Leigh, a senior advisor at the German [...]
British Food Retailer Hit With Jewish Counter-Boycott
Boycotting Israeli products can be a sticky business where boycotters can end up with egg on their faces as the British food retailer the Co-operative Group discovered today. The Group learned that its Israeli boycott is inadvertently banning goods from Palestinian farmers, and the co-op is now officially the target of a counter-boycott by Jews [...]
