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A new branding, meal-in-a-box, IDF’s race and more…This week from the Startup Nation

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Noga Gur-Arieh

December 8, 2014

No oil from Saudi Arabia

Despite various reports on Israeli and Arab media, Saudi Arabia is most likely not willing to start selling oil to Israel. According to the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, several news outlets reported that Riyadh’s oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim al-Naimi raised the prospect of exports to Israel during a conference of the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries last week in Vienna. After being quoted on various media channels, those report have been proven to be a hoax.

Read more campaign's initiators are asking the government to invest NIS 200 million (about $52 million) in Israel's marketing efforts around the world. The person behind the new campaign is Israel Hotel Association President Eli Gonen, who addresses an Ernst & Young report which stated that Israel's image problem is bigger than the real problem, although the report was published before the recent deterioration in the security situation in Israel, and in Jerusalem in particular.

Read more “>here. 

 

 

A computerized marathon

This past week, a special marathon took place in Beersheba, Israel, without the contestants even needing to get up from their seats. The 28-hour long WearSheva! Hackathon, was held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and was organized by the Google Developers Group Beersheba (GDG). It involved more than 2010 computer programmers, software developers, graphic designers and other hi-techies who had gathered to come up with new ideas for wearable technology products.

Read more “>here.