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    October 15

    Cost of RE 10 times cheaper than a fossil-fuelled future

    GREENPEACE

    EREC

    Cost of renewable energy 10 times cheaper than "business as usual" fossil-fuelled future (7 July 2007)

    Amsterdam/Brussels, 6th July 2007: Investing in a renewable electricity future will save 10 times the fuel costs of a ‘business as usual’ fossil-fuelled scenario, saving $180 billion USD annually and cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030, according to a joint report by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) released today.

    In the first global analysis of its kind, “Future Investment - A sustainable Investment Plan for the power sector to save the Climate’, demonstrates a powerful economic argument for a shift in global investments towards renewable energy (including solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and bio energy), within the next 23 years, and away from dangerous coal and nuclear power. The report gives the financial rationale for Greenpeace’s "Energy [R]evolution," a blueprint for how to cut global CO2 emissions by 50% by 2050, while maintaining global economic growth (2).

    "As Live Earth mobilises billions of people to take urgent action against the climate threat, our report shows not only that the world’s electricity needs can be met by renewable energy, but that by doing so, we will literally save trillions of dollars; a massive US $180 billion a year, forever” said Sven Teske, Greenpeace International, Energy Expert .

    “In sharp contrast, a ‘business as usual’ approach casts a dark cloud over our future. Its 10,000 new fossil fuel power plants, would increase global CO2 emissions by over 50%, and more than double fuel costs; there is no way of putting a price on the disastrous results
    this will have for environment and humanity.”

    The Energy [R]evolution needs an extra global annual inventment of $22 billion in clean and renewable power plants on top of current expenditure. The fuel cost savings in the scenario, of up to $202 billion per year, means this will pay for itself ten times over. Meanwhile, converting the massive subsidies of $250 billion a year that coal and gas receive to clean, safe renewable energy will cover the costs of the energy [r]evolution and much more.

    According to EREC the global market for wind turbines was worth some €18 billion in 2006, and the total renewable industry $50 billion. Under an energy [r]evolution scenario, the renewable energy would be worth a massive $ 288 billion by 2030.

    The renewable industry is willing and able to deliver the power plants the world needs, we simply need the right climate and energy policy. Decisions made in the next few years, will continue to have an impact in 2050. Only if a renewable energy path is taken, can we avoid the worst excesses of climate change!” said Oliver Schäfer, EREC policy director.

    The report stresses the urgent need for decisive action now. In the next decade, many existing power plants will need replacing, and emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil are rapidly building new energy infrastructure.

    October 02

    AT&T joins the queue for Israeli know-how & ingenuity

    AT&T Enters Israeli Market, Gobbles Up Interwise

    01 Oct 2007 10:11 PM CDT
     
    It looks as if the telecom giant AT&T will be entering the Israeli market for the first time evah!

    AT&T is making its presence known by buying out Interwise, an Israeli company responsible for web conferencing--which for you non geeks out there means they help businesses talk, train, record meetings, etc. in cyberspace.

    (Globes Online) After a long period without news of sales of Israeli high-tech companies, a major exit was announced today. Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), through one of its subsidiaries, is buying IP network conferencing solutions company Interwise of Israel for $121 million.  The acquisition, which is due to be completed by the end of the year, brings AT&T into the Israeli market for the first time. Interwise will continue to operate, as AT&T's local development center within AT&T Global Business Services, which serves the largest enterprises around the world and is led by Group President Ronald E. Spears.
    According to globes, AT&T is planning on keeping the management as well as the 140 staff members which is definitely good news as most buy outs often translate into corporate layoffs.

    AT&T is planning on turning Interwise into its Israeli R&D center, and the company should provide some interesting competition against Google which is already invading AT&T's space (within the internet industry) in the US.
    July 10

    Camping Facilities:

    More campgrounds going Wi-Fi

    Free WiFi

    Mon Jul 9, 12:41 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Ah, camping. The tent. The sleeping bag. The camp fire. The laptop.

    Yeah, the laptop!
    Laptop in tent
    What's a campground or RV park without Internet access these days? People say they want to get away from it all, but that doesn't necessarily mean they want to live without e-mail.

    If you happen to drive past campgrounds or RV parks this summer, chances are you'll see the signs that advertise "Wi-Fi" access right up there with showers and propane. You can also find Wi-Fi campgrounds and RV parks on the Internet. Web sites listing Wi-Fi facilities include http://www.wififreespot.com/rv.html. For listings for Kampgrounds of America sites only, go to http://www.koa.com/wireless/.

    Wi-Fi means that the location provides wireless Internet access. Often campers can log on to the Internet right from their camp site without going to any special area of the park.

    Jef Sutherland, vice president of information services for Kampgrounds of America, said that campers not only want to stay in touch with family and friends, but they also want to manage online banking transactions and check in with the office.

    "We've become a society where e-mail is as important as our phone for business and personal communications," he said. "Our guests just expect Wi-Fi at KOAs."

    The service is also increasingly provided for free. In the 2007 KOA Directory, 324 of the 379 KOAs offering Wi-Fi list it as free. In 2006, only 281 KOAs offered Wi-Fi, and only 167 of those were free.

    July 03

    Latest Israel-friendly sites listed at Highways to Jlm

    Highways to Jlm
    A Holy Land Inc. Project

    Longtom Radio, South Africa

    http://www.ltradio.org

    Longtom Radio, South Africa

     STOREHOUSE MINISTRIES

    Tall tree - God provides in BULK

    CHARLOTTE, U.S.A
    http://1raynadaughter-of-zion.tripod.com/storehouseministries

    "Behold, I will do something new,
    Now it will spring forth;
    Will you not be aware of it?
    I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,"
    Isa 43:19 NASU

    .

    .

    God said that He would establish a pathway through the
    wilderness and desert for His people to return Home
    .

    How to Establish a Highway

    There are, many ways, but we have opted for establishing tent tabernacles as our main strategy, because it is such a "visible" and versatile way. Everybody will ask, "what is this tent about?" Especially if you display a minorah or an Israeli flag. It gives you the opening to tell them. Even set up a little exhibition, (including a map of Israel stretching to the Euphrates!), display a few Israeli products especially from the settlements!

    Tabernacle

    What a turnover you'll soon have of Israeli products from 1... 10 ... 100 tabernacles - and we understand that people have been setting up tabernacles in America for the last 17 years. Now, the added idea of tabernacles forming dots on a highway, will start giving them real meaning by being "dots" connecting pathways across continents to each other. The tabernacles will indicate the way and and serve as beacons. Every Tabernacle will indicate the directions and distance to the next one. In this way all will be linked and pilgrims will never be lost without knowing were to go next.

    The Tabernacle could also be a food and medicine distribution center to assist those in need and to assist pilgrims (even refugees) on their way to Jerusalem.

    It would be ideal to offer teaching at Tabernacles, such as in discipleship and prophesy - to show the increasing importance of Israel as we get closer to the end of our era. In third world countries teaching of skills would be very beneficial, especially farming for the production of food to assist those in need. The graduated disciples will have the opportunity to establish tabernacles or assist in established tabernacles or simply in their own communities.

    http://highways-to-jlm.tripod.com

    June 02

    Core 2 Duo Intel Processor Created in Israel

     
    Core 2 Duo processor, created in Israel magnify

    PRODOS Bulletin
    stevenshamrak1@prodoscope.com
    Monday, May 21, 2007

    How Israel Saved Intel. "These are the best microprocessors we've ever designed, the best microprocessors we've ever built," Intel's Chief Executive Paul Otellini said. "This is not just incremental change; it's a revolutionary leap." He was talking about Core 2 Duo processor, created in Israel. The Israelis' new chip, named Banias after a river in Galilee, got a break with Intel's push into notebook computers. It hit the market in March 2003 as part of a package called Centrino. Banias anchored three years of 13 percent annual sales growth at Intel from 2003-05. In one 100-day period last year, Intel unveiled more than 40 processors, most based on the Israeli design. (Anti-Semites must stop using Intel processors, Microsoft products, Polio vaccine, Blue jeans and many other Jewish inventions.)

    September 15

    Preparing for the future in Israel

    Holy Land Camping

    Quoted from a presentation by Holy Land Inc. Founder, Philip Blom to Christian investors: I do think we should start paying much more attention to preparing for the future while still, of course, keeping up being spiritual "watchmen" for Israel. 
     
    During the transition towards multi-ethnic democracy in South Africa under the banner, "One Man One Vote," a prominent industrialist cautioned that the future would be better served by a slogan, "One Man One JOB." In Israel the Arabs' leadership concentrate all their energy on militant incitement and blaming Israel for their stagnation and I've often asked Arabs, Bedouins and the anti-Israel activists: "what if you manage to drive the Jews in the sea, where will the Arabs find jobs?; how can they have a state without an economy?; etc.?" 
     
    Israel still needs to absorb about 6 million Jews from the nations that we know of and millions more who don't even realize they are Jewish, plus, as the Lord God of Israel puts it, "OTHERS," who are also his people (grafted-in gentiles)...
     
    ... Apart from attending to water needs in Israel, like desalination that is already done at 27 plants of different sizes, the development and adoption of renewable energy should be an absolute priority - not just to save the world from the pollution caused by fossil fuel, but also the terrorism that is funded by oil money. Renewable energy will in any case be the hottest sector in world industry for years to come, offering enormous returns on investment. Please visit the Holy Land Inc. Associates Page to see our corporate strategy to create prosperity in Israel especially by settling on recaptured land originally mandated for Israel by establishing "GREEN" campsites and allowing them to grow into villages and towns.
    September 02

    The Jewish Roots of the American Constitution

    by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
    August 31, 2006

    A. Historical Background

    1. No nation has been more profoundly influenced by the “Old Testament” than America. Many of America’s early statesmen and educators were schooled in Hebraic civilization. The second president of the United States, John Adams, a Harvard graduate, had this to say of the Jewish people:

    The Jews have done more to civilize men than any other nation…. They are the most glorious Nation that ever inhabited the earth. The Romans and their Empire were but a bauble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the Globe and have influenced the affairs of Mankind more, and more happily than any other Nation, ancient or modern.

    2. The curriculum at Harvard, like those of other early American colleges and universities, was designed by learned men of “Old Testament” persuasion. Harvard president Mather (1685-1701) was an ardent Hebraist (as were his predecessors). His writings contain numerous quotations from the Talmud as well as from the works of Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Maimonides and other classic Jewish commentators.

    3. Yale University president Ezra Stiles discoursed with visiting rabbis on the Mishna and Talmud. At his first public commencement at Yale (1781), Stiles delivered an oration on Hebrew literature written in Hebrew. Hebrew and the study of Hebraic laws and institutions were an integral part of Yale’s as well as of Harvard’s curriculum.

    4. Much the same may be said of King’s College (later Columbia University), William and Mary, Rutgers, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown University. Hebrew learning was then deemed a basic element of liberal education. Samuel Johnson, first president of King’s College (1754-1763), expressed the intellectual attitude of his age when he referred to Hebrew as “essential to a gentleman’s education.”

    5. This attitude was not merely academic. A year before the American Revolution, Harvard president Samuel Langdon, declared: “The civil policy of Israel is doubtless an excellent general model[of government].”

    6. The Higher Law doctrine of the Declaration of Independence is rooted in the Torah, which proclaims “The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” and appeals to the “Supreme Judge” and “Providence”—terms lacking in Israel’s Declaration of Independence.

    7. During the colonial and constitution-making period, the Americans, especially the Puritans, adopted and adapted various Hebraic laws for their own governance. The legislation of New Haven, for example, was based on the premise that “the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses, and as they are not ceremonial, shall generally bind all offenders …” Thirty-eight of the seventy-nine statutes in the New Haven Code of 1665 derived their authority from the Hebrew Bible. The laws of Massachusetts were based on the same foundation.

    8. The fifteen Capital Laws of New England included the “Seven Noahide Laws” of the Torah, or what may be termed the seven universal laws of morality.

    9. Now, without minimizing the influence of such philosophers as Locke and Montesquieu on the framers of the American Constitution, America may rightly be deemed the first and only nation that was explicitly founded on the Seven Noahide Laws of the Torah. It should also be noted that the constitutions of eleven of the original thirteen states made provision for religious education. Some even had religious qualifications for office.

    B. The Institutions Prescribed by the American Constitution

    1. The House of Representatives represents 435 districts of the United States, where the people of each district elect one person to represent their views and interests. The idea of district elections is implicit in the Torah. We read in Deut. 1:13: “Select for yourselves men who are wise, understanding, and known to your tribes and I will appoint them as your leaders.”

    a. Exodus 18:19 states: “seek out from among all the people men with leadership ability, God-fearing men–men of truth who hate injustice.” Similar qualifications are prescribed in the original constitutions Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

    b. Each tribe was to select the best men to be their representatives. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch comments that “each tribe (shevet) is to choose out of its own midst men whose character can only be known by their lives [hence whose character] is known only to those who have associated with them.” This is the biblical source of residential requirements for Representatives and Senators in the United States. Also, what is here called a tribe was called a district (pelech) after the Second Temple.

    c. Finally, it is a principle of Jewish law that “No legislation should be imposed on the public unless the majority can conform to it” (Avoda Zara 36a). This requires legislators to consider or consult the opinions of their constituents. Hence representative democracy can be assimilated to Judaism by adding that representatives must be “men who are wise and haters of bribes.” This would make for an aristocratic democracy, or a universal aristocracy—a kingdom of priests, of noblemen.

    2. The Senate. The Senate represents the 50 states of the Federal Union; it therefore represents the Federal principle. But the idea of federalism goes back to the Torah and the twelve tribes. Each tribe had its own distinct identity, its own governor and its own judicial system.

    3. The Presidency. Unlike Israel, which has a Plural Executive or Cabinet consisting of a prime minister and other ministers representing different political parties in the Knesset, the United States has a Unitary Executive, namely, the President. Of course the President has a Cabinet, but its members cannot hold any other office and they are wholly responsible to the President, not to any political party.

    a. Now it so happens that a Unitary Executive is a Torah principle! Thus, when Moses told Joshua to consult the elders when he was about to lead the Jews across the Jordan, God countermanded Moses: there can only be one leader in a generation. And if you look at tractate Sanhedrin 8a, you will see that Jewish law opposes collective leadership. Nor is this all.

    b. Just as a President of the United States must be a native-born American and not a naturalized citizen, so a king of Israel must be born of a Jewish mother and not a ger or convert..

    4. The Supreme Court. Just as the American Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the American Constitution, so the Great Sanhedrin is the final interpreter of the Jewish Constitution, the Torah.

    So we see that the original American Constitution was very much rooted in Torah Judaism.

    C. Brief Comparison with Israel’s political and judicial institutions

    1. The Knesset: MKs are not individually elected by the voters in constituency elections—hence there is no accountability. In fact, MKs can ignore public opinion with impunity, as 23 Likud MKs did when they voted for Disengagement, contrary to their pledge to the nation in the January 2003 election.

    2. The Government: The cabinet is collection of rival party leaders competing for a larger slice of the national budget. This undermines national unity and national purpose. The average government last less than two years, which makes it impossible to pursue a consistent and long-range national strategy.

    3. The Supreme Court: The Court is a self-appointed oligarchy. It refuses to enforce the Foundations of Law Act 1980 which would make Jewish law first among equals. Chief Justice Aaron Barak writes: “It should never be said that a particlar legal system has the primary claim to interpretive inspiration.” Imagine a US Supreme Court justice teaching Americans: “It should never be said that the American legal system has the primary claim to interpertive inspiration.”

    Israel’s Supreme Court is the only court in the world that scorns the legal heritage of its own people. It has repeatedly handed down decisions that violate the basic beliefs and values of the Jewish people.

    D. Conclusion: The political and judicial institutions of the so-called Jewish State are less Jewish than the political and judicial institutions now operating in the non-Jewish democratic world!

    * * *

    My Comments

    As against the USA, the reigning powers and systems of government in Israel are those of Babylon (globalism and "mystery  religions") from which Abra(ha)m was called to form a new nation under our God of Israel in Canaan. It gave rise to an ongoing battle in present day Israel that the Bible typifies as a war between the sons of Greece and the sons of Zion. Ironically, Christians who stand on the Bible when it comes to Israel and Jewish rights, are very much part of the sons of Zion whether they realize it or not, and will eventually be persecuted for it. In fact, in general the sons of Zion include those with a Biblical stand on other issues as well, like abortion, gay issues, etc., that would also make them a target for liberals' wrath. Take courage though, the sons of Zion will finally be victorious. But we still have quite a way to go, since Christians are not that much under pressure yet in the West. For the few of us (Christian sons of Zion) who have been called from the nations to serve in Israel, the going is tough, though, due to the fact that Biblical rules concerning foreigners in the land are not in force. We constantly need to deal with visa problems and find ways to survive because we are not entitled to work. We therefore really need help to be able to stand with the persecuted sector of the Israeli population (about 50%) and to prepare a refuge for Jewish and Christian refugees from the nations. Please see my "Appeal" on my Holy Land Inc. Associates Page and my "Founder's Report" and please, seriously consider my plea for help. Please don't wait for persecution to start before you act. It might be too late.

    Shalom from Israel.
    Philip Blom
    Founder of
    Holy Land Inc. Biblical Zionist Sites
    (http://holyland-inc-sites.tripod.com
    - visited more than 54,000 times the last five years or so)
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    My Personal 360º Blog: http://360.yahoo.com/profile-oKr4rtE_dLIPJ.64cW8g7t4-

    July 07

    Vehicles Can Be More Energy Efficient, Use Less Oil, Expert Says

    New materials, fuels, production methods promise to revolutionize auto-making

    The following article appears in the July 2006 issue of the State Department's electronic journal series Economic Perspectives. The complete issue, titled Clean Energy Solutions, can be viewed on the USINFO Web site.

    Reinventing the Wheels: The Automotive Efficiency Revolution

    By Amory B. Lovins
    Chief Executive Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute

    Transportation drives global oil trade and is a key environmental challenge, especially in cities. Most cities are designed around cars, not people -- changing cars “from a convenient accessory of life into its central organizing principle,” according to environmental author Alan Thein Durning. It need not be so. Moreover, new car technologies already exist, and others are under development, with potential to transform the paradigms of global development and energy security. These technologies, if pursued, will be good for business throughout the world, provide safe and affordable mobility, be environmentally friendly, and create competitive advantage. They are not the stuff of science fiction, but realities we can expect to see emerge even within this decade.

    The world cannot go on turning nearly five trillion liters of oil per year, half of it for transport, into the roughly 42 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions reported by the U.S. Department of Energy in its 2005 World Energy Outlook. Oil’s direct and hidden costs -- climate change, insecurity, geopolitical rivalry, price volatility, and degradation of economic and social development -- make it unsupportable.

    The most fundamental solutions are the simplest. More sensible land use strengthens neighborhoods and lets people be already where they want to be. Smart policies let all means of getting around—from walking and biking to ultralight trains and advanced buses -- compete fairly at honest prices. From Singapore to Curitiba, Brazil, cities that treat cars without favoritism have no car problem, yet they achieve excellent mobility for all. In time, so could even the car-centric United States and other industrialized countries if they stopped incentivizing sprawl and cars through their tax systems and zoning laws.

    Lighter weight formerly meant costly metals such as aluminum and magnesium. Now, ultralight steels can double a car’s efficiency without extra cost or decreased safety. With clever design, even conventional steels can yield surprising results. A German startup firm’s 2+2-seat 450- to 470-kilogram diesel roadster (www.loremo.com) combines 160- to 220-kilometer-per-hour (100- to 137-mile-per-hour) top speeds with a fuel economy from 1.5 to 2.7 liters per 100 kilometers (87 to 157 miles per U.S. gallon), and will sell in 2009 for 11,000 euros to 15,000 euros.

    Advanced polymer composites are even stronger and lighter. They can halve a car’s weight and fuel use, yet increase safety, because carbon-fiber composites can absorb up to 12 times as much crash energy per kilogram as steel.

    Alternative Automotive Fuels

    Many cars already on the road can burn advanced biofuels -- say, 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol, ideally “cellulosic” ethanol made with new processes from woody plants such as switchgrass or crop wastes. An ultralight hybrid car burning such “E85” fuel could cut its oil use by another three-fourths, to just 7 percent of the current level. Brazil has already eliminated its oil imports, two-fifths via sugar-cane ethanol that now competes without subsidy. Three-fourths of Brazil’s new cars can burn anything from pure ethanol to pure gasoline, although all of its gasoline is at least 20 percent ethanol. Sweden plans to be oil-independent by 2020, chiefly via ethanol made from forest wastes, and its top-selling 60 percent of filling stations must offer renewable fuel by 2009.

    In the longer run, one can make a robust business case for tripled-efficiency, ultralight-hybrid cars to use compressed hydrogen gas as fuel and turn it into electricity in a fuel cell. A heavy, inefficient car would need an excessively bulky tank and a big, costly fuel cell. But an ultralight, aerodynamic car would need two-thirds less propulsive energy and smaller tanks. And just 3 percent as much cumulative production volume would be needed to make the three-fold smaller fuel cell cost effective -- thus it could become cost effective many, many years earlier. Such cars when parked (which is 96 percent of the time) could even become profitable power plants on wheels, selling electricity back to the grid when and where it’s most valuable. In a parking structure, there would be a pipe to get hydrogen into the car and wires to get electricity out. At times of peak power demand, you could turn the fuel cell on and the car could run as a power plant, crediting the owner’s account.

    June 30

    Jorik Blom, Photographer

    Jorik Blom will be our first choice when it comes to commissioned photographers for Holy Land Inc. projects - and that is not because he is Hl Inc. founder, Philip Blom's son, he is an excellent allround photograher, from studio photos to outdoors and extreme sport. See his website at jorikblomphotography.com
    June 12

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    June 01

    Israel's remarkable economy

    "Arutz 7 Editor" news@israelnationalnews.com Wed, 31 May 2006
    Israel Investment News - May, 2006
    By IsraelNN Staff

    As a public service, Arutz Sheva provides below the May newsletter from the Finance Ministry's Investment Promotion Center.

    ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST INVESTORS WARREN BUFFETT IN HIS LARGEST INVESTMENT OUTSIDE U.S., BUYS 80% OF ISCAR FOR $4 BILLION

    Buffett: "Iscar is an amazing company run by amazing people. I don't get many opportunities to invest in companies like that."

    Warren Buffett, labeled the biggest investment guru of all time and his investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced an agreement to buy 80% of Israeli company Iscar Ltd. for $4 billion.

    Iscar Metalworking Companies (IMC) is an industry leader in the metal cutting tools business through its Iscar, TaeguTec, Ingersoll and other IMC group companies. It is owned by the Wertheimer family with operations worldwide. The deal is the largest acquisition ever by Buffett outside the U.S. and the third largest investment ever made by Berkshire.

    Buffett said that his investment in Iscar and its management would prove to be one of the most significant things Berkshire had ever done. Talking about Israel, Buffett said that Israel has "amazing people. We are investing $4 billion in an amazing group of people from Israel – and we are investing it at an astounding speed."

    The company will continue to be managed by its current management team, headed by Chairman Eitan Wertheimer and President and CEO Jacob Harpaz with headquarters remaining in Tefen, Israel.

    Expressing interest in investing in additional Israeli companies, Buffett commented that he is waiting for calls from Israeli companies that meet his criteria.

    MORGAN STANLEY LABELS ISRAELI ECONOMY "ALMOST PERFECT"

    Investment bank releases glowing report on Israeli economy

    In a review on the Israeli economy entitled "Israel, Almost Perfect", U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley predicted the Bank of Israel's key rate will rise to 5.75% in 2006. The report said that "Israel's new government is good news from the economy and financial markets. The formation of a 'grand' coalition…in the Knesset is a positive development and will help maintain economic stability."

    6.6% GROWTH IN ECONOMY IN FIRST QUARTER

    Citigroup sees average growth exceeding 4%

    A report showed the economy grew 6.6% in the first quarter of 2006, compared with 5.2% in the same period of 2005. The results exceeded previous forecasts. Investments in fixed assets grew by an annualized 16.3%, business product rose by an annualized 10.6% and investments in machinery and equipment rose by 20%. In response to the first quarter figures, Citigroup analysts predict that the average growth for 2006 will be higher than its 4% previously predicted.

    NASDAQ TO LAUNCH INDEX OF ISRAELI COMPANIES

    Israeli stock index to be the first foreign index on Nasdaq

    Nasdaq International Vice President for EMEA, Charlotte Crosswell said that the Nasdaq will launch an Israeli stock index within the next few months. The companies on the index will be weighed on the basis of their market capitalization. This will be the first ever foreign index on the Nasdaq, with Israel boasting more companies listed than any country outside North America.

    RED HERRING'S TOP 100 EUROPEAN LIST INCLUDES 17 ISRAELI COMPANIES

    Israel ties 2nd place for the largest number of companies on the list

    Israel tied with France in the second largest number of companies, after Britain to be listed on Red Herring's top European 100 private technology companies. The companies, judged on innovation and entrepreneurial activities, include D-Pharm, BiolineRX, BitBand, Genova, Altair Semiconductor, Axerra Networks, cVidya Networks, Discretix Technologies, Double Fusion, Gteko Technologies, Negevtech, Power Paper, Siano Mobile Silicon, SpeedBit, Targetize Innovative Solutions, Xeround and Voltaire.

    MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES BUYS ISRAELI WHALE COMMUNICATIONS

    Microsoft Israel's VP R&D: Microsoft plans to turn the start-up into another Israeli R&D center

    Microsoft announced plans to acquire secure sockets layer (SSL) and virtual private networks (VPN) vendor Whale Communications. Whale was listed in international accountancy firm Deloitte Touche’s “Europe Fast 500” list of top companies in 2005. Whale marks Microsoft's first acquisition of an Israeli company since 2001.

    BMC SOFTWARE INTERESTED IN FURTHER INVESTING IN ISRAEL

    The company's investments in Israel are considered its largest outside the U.S

    On a visit to Israel, BMC President and CEO Bob Beauchamp announced that BMC Software would continue investing in Israel on top of the billion dollars it had already spent. Beauchamp was in Israel with other company executives celebrating the company's recent acquisition of Identify Group for $150 million. Jim Grant, the Vice President of BMC Software Service Management Business Unit said that the company's investments in Israel are its largest outside the U.S.

    "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," he said.

    CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP TO ENTER ISRAELI MARKET

    Company establishes fund with Pekan Plus Mutual Funds

    Capital International, an investment group with over $300 billion under management, announced it would establish a mutual fund in Israel. This marks the company's first entry into the Israeli market. Capital International signed an agreement with Tel Aviv based Pekan Plus Mutual Funds. The fund will specialize in investments in the US share markets for its Israeli clientele.

    IBM ACQUIRES ISRAELI UNICORN SOLUTIONS

    Company listed on Red Herring's 100 leading start-ups for 2005

    Unicorn Solutions, developers of software for metadata management is being acquired by IBM. The company is based in Jerusalem with a presence in New York.

    Unicorn is included in Gartner Group's "visionary quadrant" within its high-level evaluation criteria "Magic Quadrant" and was listed on Red Herring's 100 leading start-ups in 2005. Its employees will join the IBM R&D laboratory in Israel.

    FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT REACHES $1.72 BILLION IN MARCH-APRIL

    Hi-tech , industry and real estate benefit from investment

    The Bank of Israel reported that total direct foreign investment and investment in Israeli securities totaled $1.72 billion for the months of March and April. The hi-tech, industry and real estate sectors benefited most from the investment.

    STANDARD AND POORS AND MOODY'S CAST CONFIDENT VOTE ON ISRAELI ECONOMY

    "Israeli society and its political and economic decision-makers have shown remarkable resiliency," reported Moody's

    Both Moody's Investor Services and credit rating company Standard & Poors (S&P) granted a vote of confidence in the Israeli economy. Moody's Investor Services upgraded its outlook for its international market rating for Israel to "positive". "Israel is exhibiting considerable growth of GDP per capita, moving towards a level more often associated with advanced economies than with developing ones," said the report.

    In addition, announcing its credit ratings, S&P retained its A- rating for Israel. It reaffirmed the outlook remains stable.

    WARREN BUFFETT INVESTS FURTHER IN ISRAEL

    AgroLogic and Cellulogic acquired by Berkshire Hathaway

    Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Group announced its subsidiary CTB International Corp. had signed an agreement to buy the controlling interest of Israeli company AgroLogic. The company designs and manufactures integrated systems for cultural use including climate controllers, feed and poultry weighing systems. Cellulogic, AgroLogic's subsidiary which makes warning and control systems was also acquired by CTB International.
     
    Israel's incredible economy that allows her leaders to "buy" coalition partners to help them to execute their destructive policies - like using more than 50,000 soldiers and policeman to remove around 8,000 settlers from Gaza and recently 10,000 to block all of the Westbank to remove three families from a house (legally owned by Jews) in Hebron. This remarkable economy, compared to that of the to be established, so-called, Palestinian State that has no economy.
    PS. A re-settlement program wasn't provided for in the unilateral eviction of Jews from Gaza and northern Shomron. Consequently, to date, 10 months later, 111 families are not yet living even in the temporary "caravilla" pre-fab structures and of the 1,860 people who became unemployed, 1,350 are still not working.
     
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    Campsites turning into villages

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    Jerusalem, ISRAEL. Tel. (972) (0)50-539-7969 MSN username = hl.inc.founder@hotmail.com | Google Talk username eret.tzion

    5 May 2006

    Dear Friends

    Campsites turning into villages, is what we envision will evolve from using campsites to settle new Jewish immigrants and gentile refugees from the nations.

    However, it has become abundantly clear that the camping project will not get off the ground (or down to earth from cyber space) before conditions develop in the nations in which Jews and their gentile supporters will need to look towards Israel for a refuge. It gives us more time to plan and to attend to other serious needs in Israel, of which the vital need to develop alternative energy sources to polluting fossil fuel. The latter has now moved to the top of our project list and we have realized that the ideal way to pursue it would be to incorporate it into campsite development. It lead to a new vision: green energy campsites that will become green energy villages. See Holy Land Camping: Green Campsites.

    As we explain on our Corporate Associates page, we need to acquire a site fairly close to the Ben Gurion Airport that could initially serve as a launch pad and facilities for various projects that are planned, viz. camping, communications, experimentation/preparation of alternative fuels (renewable energy), etc. We have realized that a fairly big hothouse would be ideal because it could be used as a basecamp for Holy land Camping as well as house some other Holy Land Inc. projects. It doesn't sound very romantic to use it to accommodate newly arrived people camp-style, but one can create an acceptable atmosphere with the use of plants.

    And we have found such a site at Kfar Rut on the way to Modiin Ilit. It is a 1 dunam (1/4 acre?) site with uncovered hothouse frames. Other than the frames, that will be handy for many purposes, there is nothing on the site and we will need to construct whatever facilities we need. While this is being done, we can rent a small storeroom in a factory building alongside the hothouse site that can initially serve as an office, a communications center and for storage of equipment.

    Meetings are now been set up to negotiate about renting the little storeroom and the hothouse site. Hopefully the little storeroom can be rented for less than 100 USD per month and that we will be able to give assurances that we will be able to pay the rent for a period of time. It seems that we have reached the situation in which Israel "waxes lean" (stripped to the bone) that will be characteristic of at the time of the "overnight" war predicted in Isaiah 17. Since my future and that of Holy Land Inc. and it's projects are tied up with the fulfillment of the Isaiah 17 (The eastbank of the Jordan becoming available to Israel to reclaim), our situation also happens to reflects the depleted economic situation prior to that war.

    We therefore need to make do without an address or a budget and can only publish material and execute projects on free web space - because nothing has so far happened that would cause people to take note of the potential of investments in Israel.

    The good news is, though, that many more people have lately visited our Holy Land Inc. websites, that could reflect a growing interest in Israel. One of these visitors to our websites, an American lady, expressed complete agreement with our strategy to settle land by means of campsites as well as the concept of creating highways from the nations to Jerusalem - by setting up tabernacles to serve as service and information centers along the way. She is hoping that we would be able to provide her with a place to camp when she visits Israel by the end of May 2006.

    Perhaps this flickering of increased interest in Israel might be enough incentive for some people who are waiting and watching to take heed of our aims, as in the banner below, and come on board to help us in ways suggested on our Corporate Associates page.

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     Philip Blom

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