By Karin Kloosterman
Karin, a Canadian-Israeli, meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water [...]

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We already know that Israel and the Province of Manitoba are collaborating on wetlands research. And last year Canada’s water experts from Manitoba were in Israel to learn about the very dry country’s techniques in water conservation.
Last week my friend from Reuters sent me a note that Israel is to host the second Manitoba-Israel Water [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Raising money ain’t childsplay, but the fruits of those fundraising efforts will be. Manitoba and Tel Aviv are collaborating to build a playground in the Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa, a collaboration that was launched in Winnipeg recently.
The Manitoba-Israel Shared Values Roundtable (MISVR), led by Manitoba Minister of Water Stewardship Christine Melnick, will [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

I’ve written about CIIRDF before here and here: the strongest link for industrial cooperation between Israel and Canada. Created 10 years between both countries, the Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) promotes industrial R&D between Israel and Canada.
Investing domestically, the organization helps Canadian companies find partners in Israel, and with joint [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

Water is everywhere. That was the key message from Brian Berkowitz, head of chemical research support at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel’s Environmental Sciences & Energy Research division.
Berkowitz spoke at Toronto’s Park Hyatt Hotel recently, delivering a lecture titled Water, Energy and the Environment: Science & Sustainability. It was sponsored by [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Well the title of this post is kind of misleading. Sort of.
This is a story about Shari Arison, the billionaire heiress of Carnival Cruiselines. With a reported $5.5 billion in assets (according to Forbes), Arison is the richest woman in the Middle East. Owner of one of Israel’s banks, Arison is hard to [...]

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by Karen Kloosterman

Here is a picture of Canada. Compared to Canada, Israel’s total length is less than the distance between Toronto and Montreal. Its territory is smaller than Vancouver Island and about the same size and shape of Lake Manitoba (see Israel marked in red).
Maybe this is why Manitoba is looking to Israel to learn [...]

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by Lauren Kramer
The province of Manitoba is not alone when it comes to wanting to collaborate with Israeli experts to help remedy its water issues. After participating in the Manitoba-Israel water symposium hosted by Manitoba’s water stewardship minister Christine Melnick last month, one expert found himself en route to Montreal.
Elion Adar, director of the Zuckerberg [...]

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by Lauren Kramer 

 (Byran Oborne, recipient of a $50,000 scholarship that will send him to Israel)
Bryan Oborne has a big smile on his face – and you can’t blame him. The 41-year-old PhD student at the University of Manitoba last week became the first recipient of a two-year, $50,000 scholarship that will send him to Israel to find [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Manitoba’s Minister of Water Stewardship can’t get enough of Israel. Christine Melnick has visited Israel five times over the past few years, and when, on her most recent trip in January 2007, the Jewish National Fund offered her the chance to see various water management projects in the state, she jumped at the [...]

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