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Thank You

yoav@negevdirect.com 06/20/2011

There are hundreds of thousands of blogs out there today, but you’ve taken the time to read this one – and for that I thank you! I know a bunch of you just signed…

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Focus on the Negev: The New Arava Solar Field

yoav@negevdirect.com 06/05/2011

One thing we have plenty of in the Negev almost all year round is sunshine.  That and a pioneering spirit for ingenuity. Today The Arava Power Co., an Israeli renewable-energy developer, completed its first solar…

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Helping AMIT Help Israel

yoav@negevdirect.com 06/02/2011

This summer, Vivint, one of the largest home automation companies in North America, is giving away more than one million dollars to charities through its GiveBack Project. We LOVE Vivint for it’s innovative approach…

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Names In The News

yoav@negevdirect.com 05/25/2011

Sharon Temkin Portnoy has joined the Forward Association, publisher of the Forward newspaper, as Director of Development. Portnoy joins the Forward from Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.  During her tenure with Hadassah,…

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The Power of the Brand

yoav@negevdirect.com 05/16/2011

Facebook is tremendously popular in Israel. Check out the statistics  here. Almost half of the county uses Facebook. And if you want further proof of popularity, here it is: Ha’aaretz reports that Lior and Vardit…

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The Tikva התקווה

yoav@negevdirect.com 05/09/2011

Tonight is the start of Yom Haatzmaut in Israel where we will be celebrating Israel’s 63 birthday! Please take a minute to enjoy this video version of Hatikva brought to you by Israel’s Public…

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Meanwhile, In Beersheva…

yoav@negevdirect.com 05/05/2011

  Ben-Gurion University researcher Alberto Bilenca, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Dr. Bilenca has developed a fast, low-cost device to accurately diagnose malaria in the field without having to draw…

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Salons for the Savvy Organization

yoav@negevdirect.com 03/29/2011

Today’s eJewish Philanthropy features an article by Susan Weidman Schneider, one of Lilith Magazines founders, on the concept on Salons. She writes…Salons, popular among intellectually curious and avant-garde Jewish women from the eighteenth century onward,…

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