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Entries from July 2009

Toronto Film Festival To Feature 4 Israeli Films

July 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

By Karin Kloosterman
I’d interviewed Leon Prudovsky while doing some freelance writing for Tel Aviv University’s magazine and am pleased to hear that his will be one of 4 Israeli films to have made the cut at the Toronto Film festival, according to YNet.
The nine day fete set to start on September 10 will feature Prudovsky’s [...]

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Tags: Art · Film

Canada-China-Israel Roundtable on Agro-Innovation

July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off

 By Staff
 The Honourable Stockewell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, was the keynote speaker at the second Canada-China-Israel Roundtable on Agri-Innovation on July 27.  The International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada, the Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada hosted this annual event in Ottawa.
Minister Day [...]

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Tags: Business · Politics

Dinosaur Fossils in Israel and Canada

July 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

By Lauren Kramer  

“This one was the size of our bus,” our guide said as she pointed to the virtually intact fossil of one. Excavated in the late 1960s, this Hadrosaurid is curled up in an embryonic pose, leading scientists to hypothesize that it drowned by falling in a river, its remains quickly protected by the [...]

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Tags: Education