Useful Web Sites

Israeli Government Sites

• Israel Government Gateway: www.gov.il/firstgov/english
• Bank of Israel: http:/www.bankisrael.gov.il/firsteng.htm
• Investment Promotion Center: www.investinisrael.gov.il
• Israel Export Institute: www.export.gov.il/eng
• Industrial Cooperation Authority: www.ica.gov.il
• Central Bureau of Statistics: www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm
• Ministry of Finance: www.mof.gov.il/mainpage_eng.htm
• Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor: www.tamas.gov.il
• Israel Department of Customs and V.A.T.: www.mof.gov.il/customs/eng
• Ministry of Tourism: www.goisrael.com
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs: www.israel-mfa.gov.il
• Knesset: www.knesset.gov.il/main/eng/home.asp
• Prime Minister's Office: http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng

High Tech and Venture Capital

• U.S.-Israel Binational Research & Development Foundation (BIRD): www.birdf.com  
• Israel Association of Software Houses: www.iash.org.il
• Israel Venture Capital Association: www.iva.co.il
• Israel Venture Capital Research Center: www.ivc-online.com
• MATIMOP: Israeli Industry Center for R&D: www.matimop.org.il
• U.S.-Israel Science & Technology Commission: www.usistc.org/fs_index.asp

Bilateral Business Organizations

• U.S. - Israel Business Exchange www.usibex.org
• Association of America Israel Chambers of Commerce: www.israeltrade.org

Additional Sites of Interest

• Dun & Bradstreet's Israel: www.dundb.co.il/english/index.asp
• Israeli Company Directories: www.science.co.il/CoDir.asp
• Israel 21C: www.israel21c.org
• Standard & Poor’s Israel: www.standardpoor.co.il
• Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: www.tase.co.il

Newspapers and Magazines

• Globes: www.globes.co.il
• Ha'aretz: www.haaretz.com
• Jerusalem Post: www.jpost.co.il
• Jerusalem Report: www.jrep.com
• Yedioth Aharonot (Ynet): www.ynetnews.com
• Ma'ariv (NRG): www.nrg.co.il

Academic Institutions

• Bar Ilan University: www.biu.ac.il
• Ben Gurion University: www.bgu.ac.il
• Hebrew University: www.huji.ac.il
• Jerusalem College of Technology: www.jct.ac.il
• Technion-Israel Institute of Technology: www.technion.ac.il/english/index.html
• Tel Aviv University: www.tau.ac.il
• Weizmann Institute of Science: www.weizmann.ac.il

Doing Business on the East Coast

• U.S. census information about New York: www.newyorkfed.org/index.html
• State of N.Y.- Information site: www.empire.state.ny.us/portal/flashed.html
• Facts and figures about New York's economy: www.ppinys.org