New York and Israel
Trade and Population Statistics
| Exports to Israel (2015) |
$5,355,751,120 |
| Percentage Change (2013-2014) |
+21.71% |
| Total Exports to Israel (1996-Present) |
$66,925,943,742 |
| Israel's Trade Partner Rank (2015) |
2 |
| Military Contracts with Israel (2015) |
$74,353,090 |
| Jewish Population (2015) |
1,626,800 |
| Jewish Percentage of Population |
10.8% |
Binational
foundation grants shared by New York and Israel
Grant recipients in
New York from U.S.-Israel binational foundations:
Accurate
Chem & Sci Corp.
Acoustiguide
Acumen Systems Inc.
Adar International, Inc.
Advanced Technology Intl
AFP Imaging Corp.
Air Techniques Inc.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alcide Corporation
American Banknote Corp.
American Museum of Natural Hist
Animed, Inc.
Berlitz International, Inc.
Boyce Thompson Inst. for Plant Research
Brinkmann Instrument Inc.
Brookhaven National Lab
Brooklyn College
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Columbia
Columbia Physicians & Surgeons
Comverse Technology, Inc.
Cornell University
Cornell Medical College
Cornell Medical-NY Hospital
Cornell University Weill Medical College
CUNY
CUNY Baruch College
CUNY Brooklyn College
CUNY City College
CUNY Mt. Sinai Medical
CUNY Queens College
CUNY Staten Island
CYBRA Corporation
Delta Three Inc.
Eastman Dental Center
Eastman Kodak Co.
Frantz Imaging Inc.
Frantz Medical Develop.
Frequency Electronics
General Microwave Corp.
Globecomm Systems, Inc.
Grumman Data Sys.
HarperCollins Publishers
Helen Hayes Hospital
I.B.S. (USA) Ltd.
IBM Watson Research Center
InterACT Corporation
International Systems
International Imaging Materials, Inc.
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Kollsman,
Inc.
Level 8 Systems Inc.
Liver Research Center
Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar & Sensors
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Mennen Medical Inc.
Metrometer Inc.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Napco Security Syst. Inc.
Neuromedical Systems, Inc.
New York Medical College
New York State Department of Health
New York State Inst. for Basic Research
New York Botanical Garden
North Hills Electronics
NYU
NYC College of Dentistry
NYU Medical School
Polytechnic Institute of New York
Polytechnic University
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
RGT Inc. Systems/Soft.
Rockefeller University
Satellite Transmission Systems, Inc.
SHL Systemhouse Inc.
Sloan-Kettering Inst.
SPI Microtech Inc.
Standard Microsystems
SUNY
SUNY Buffalo
SUNY Buffalo Medical School
SUNY Health Center
SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Stony Brook Medical School
SUNY Upstate Medical
Symbol Technologies Inc.
Syracuse
Telrad Telecomm. Inc.
The Population Council
University of Rochester
University of Rochester Medical School
Union College
USBC Capital Corp.
USDA Plum Island Animal Disease Ctr.
Vision Sciences
Worldcomm Systems Inc.
Xerox Corp.
Yeshiva University Medical School |
Bilateral
Institutions top
Israeli Business
Forum of New York - The Israeli Business Forum
of New York (IBF) is an apolitical, nonprofit organization established
in October 2002. IBF's mission is to facilitate quality business discussions
among Israeli professionals in New York. Through our programs we enable
a group of professional Israelis to interact on a regular basis and
exchange ideas about Israeli related issues. The IBF encourages meaningful
discussions and business interactions among our members in order to
promote their contribution to Israeli society and economy. Learn more
about the IBF on their official website, CLICK
HERE.
America-Israel Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, New York Office - The
America-Israel Chamber of Commerce has fostered the expansion of economic
relations between the United States and Israel for over 56 years. As
the only organization totally devoted to bringing US and Israeli businesses
together, our goals are to advance and protect free trade, advocate for policies
that encourage investment, increase the flow of trade, investment and
transfer of technology and encourage the US and Israeli governments
to adopt innovative and progressive economic programs and policies.
Learn more about the AICCI, CLICK
HERE.
American-Israel Enviornmental
Council/The Council for a Beautiful Israel - Originally
established in 1973, the AIEC has changed its official name numerous
times over the course of three decades yet its mission remains the same.
In general it is a support group for Israel whose activities include
education, town planning, lobbying for legislation to protect and enhance
the enviornment, preservation of historical sites, the improvement and
beautification of industrial and commercial areas and sponsoring the
CBI Center for Enviormental Studies located in Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv.
Fighting BDS top
An anti-BDS resolution was passed with a near-unanimous vote in the New York State Assembly on June 22, 2015. The resolution denounced the BDS movement, stating, “this legislative body is concerned that the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and its agenda are damaging to the causes of peace, justice, equality, democracy, and human rights for all peoples in the Middle East.” The legislation reiterated the close ties that New York shares with the Jewish state as well.
The New York State Senate approved a bill that prohibits the state and state entities from doing business with companies that support the BDS movement on January 20, 2016. The bill, S-6378A, is currently on the docket for the State Assembly to vote on. This legislation would prohibit state contracting with or investments in companies or individuals that engage in boycott, divestment, or sanctioning activities against Israel.
WESPAC Foundation, a group that financially supports the BDS movement by supporting Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is based in White Plains, New York. SJP, the main iteration of the BDS movement on U.S. college campuses, raises money through donations to WESPAC and is not required by law to disclose their funding to the IRS because they are not registered as a charitable organization. The Palestine Freedom Project also receives funding through WESPAC, as does the Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation.
On June 5, 2016, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order requiring state agencies to divest from organizations and companies that participate in Israel boycotts. Cuomo described BDS as an “economic attack” on Israel during a speech at Manhattan's Harvard Club, and stated that “If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you.” The Governor chose to issue an executive order instead of bringing the issue to the state legislature because passing legislation can be “a tedious affair,” and he wanted to take “immediate action,” against the BDS movement. Under the order, the Commissioner of the Office of General Services of New York was commanded to put together a list of businesses and groups involved in the BDS movement, based on “credible information available to the public.” The executive order was signed just before the Governor marched in New York City's 2016 Celebrate Israel Parade.
Cooperative
Agreements - "Memoranda of Understanding" top
In September 2009, Governor David
Patterson signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel's Industry,
Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer on industrial cooperation
in the area of research & development. In addition the agreement
seeks to assist companies in finding financing sources for R&D projects
as well as initiate symposiums and seminars in the areas of nanotechnology,
biotechnology, and public and internal security. Read more in a press
release, CLICK
HERE.
In 1989, Gov. Mario Cuomo created
the International Partnership Program to promote exchanges with Israel
in culture, tourism and economic development. The New York-Israel Economic
Development Partnership was established specifically to promote trade
and strategic alliances.
New York Government Missions to Israel top
August 2014 - The New York Unity Delegation,
headed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and including New York State Senate Majority
Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver,
and various other elected officials headed to Israel on Tuesday August 13.
The Delegation hopes to send a message that New York stands strong with
Israel and acknowledges and respects it's right to defend itself during and
following Operation Protective Edge.
August 2011 - Congresswoman Yvette
Clarke and Congressmen Michael Grimm and Bill Owens traveled to Israel
as part of an 81 member of Congress fact finding mission.
January 2009 - New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg visited Israel on an official government trip. While
there Mayor Bloomberg visited the southern Israeli town of Sderot that
has been under constant rocket attack from Hamas terrorists in the nearby
Gaza strip. During his visit two rockets were fired at the town and
although they landed outside the urban areas and no one was injured,
Mayor Bloomberg was "given" a first-hand account of both the
physical and emotional toll that every citizen there goes through.
November 2005 - Senator Hillary Clinton
visited Israel for the first time as senator from New York. Sen Clinton
met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and senior military commanders.
Sen Clinton spoke with military officials about disaster preparedness
and other such hot button topics that could affect both Israel and New
York. The Clintons also visited the site of where Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin was assasinated ten years earlier and spoke to a large crowd about
Rabin's vision for peace.
March 2005 - New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg accepted the request of President Bush to lead an American
delegation to Israel to represent the US at the official opening of
the new Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Though the mayor
spent less than two days in country, he was able to meet with numerous
Israeli officials and promoted how close the relationship between Israel
and New York must remain and grow stronger.
May 1998 - Gov. George Pataki led
a delegation to Israel and opened a new trade office in Jerusalem.
Partners
For Change
The U.S.-Israel relationship is based on the twin
pillars of shared values and mutual interests. Given this commonality of
interests and beliefs, it should not be surprising that support for Israel
is one of the most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the
American people.
It is more difficult to devise programs that capitalize
on the two nations' shared values than their security interests;
nevertheless, such programs do exist. In fact, these SHARED VALUE
INITIATIVES cover a broad range of areas, including the environment,
science and technology, education and health.
As analyst David Pollock noted, Israel is an advanced country with a population that surpassed eight million people in 2013 and a robust, dynamic economy that allowed it to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Between 2005 and 2013, Israel has represented a larger market for U.S. exports than Saudi Arabia. Although Israel's citizenry make up just 3 percent of the total region's population, Israel accounts for 25 percent of American exports in the Middle East.
"It has also been one of the top 20 foreign direct investors in the United States since 2009," Pollock confirms. He adds that "$2.25 billion of the $3 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel comes back via Israeli purchases of U.S. military equipment - and that is just 5 percent of the total bilateral trade each year."
Today's interdependent global economy requires that
trade policy be developed at the national and state level.
Many states have recognized the opportunity for realizing
significant benefits by seeking to increase trade with Israel. New York is one of 33 states that have cooperative
agreements with Israel.
In 2012, New York exported over$4,466,644,983 worth
of manufacturing goods to Israel. Since 1996, New York exports to
Israel have totaled more than $55,333,005,193 and Israel now ranks as New York’s #1 leading trade partner.
Additionally in 2012, New York received more than $95,851,578.84 in foreign military financing (FMF) for US military aid
to Israel. Some of those companies that have received funding through FMF in 2012 or past years
include: COMPANIES_HERE.
Israel is certainly a place where potential business
and trade partners can be found. It can also be a source, however, for
innovative programs and ideas for addressing problems facing the citizens
of New York.
Israel has developed a number of pioneering education programs. For example, AICE introduced an innovative Israeli
peer tutoring program to North Carolina that educators adapted for use
in the United States. Now known as Reading Together, the program is
used in 28 states. The program is designed to help students achieve
reading fluency and is mostly used for children in second grade. The
hope is that with its implementation, increasing numbers of students
will perform at grade level or above.
A range of other exciting approaches to social problems
like unemployment, environmental protection and drug abuse have been
successfully implemented in Israel and could be imported for the benefit
of Americans.
The potential for greater cooperation with Israel for
the benefit of New York is limited only by the imagination.
New York Firms
Profit From Business With Israel top
As the only country with free trade
agreements with both the United States and the European
community, Israel can act as a bridge for international
trade between the U.S. and Europe. Moreover, because
of its deep pool of talent, particularly in high-technology
areas, Israel provides excellent investment opportunities.
Some of America’s largest companies, such as
IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Intel and McDonald’s
have found that it is indeed profitable to do business
in Israel.
Approximately 1,300 New York companies
have discovered the benefits of doing business in
Israel, including Bell Atlantic, Eastman Kodak, Circle
Seal Cooperation and Chase Manhattan Bank. In fact,
22% of Israel’s total U.S. imports come from
New York.
New York-based GE (Corporate Research
Center) and Systel Development and Industries Ltd.
are working on the development of a digital single
chip power controller and PLC communications for
dimmable ballasts. Systel Development and Industries
Ltd. focuses on utilizing digital control techniques
that provide innovative solutions to the power conversion
and power management markets. GE Corporate Research
and Development (GE-CRD) provides technical leadership
to GE's product centers. A corporate facility serving
the entire company, it compliments the work of many
other GE laboratories associated with GE's 12 global
businesses. GE has lighting controls and ballast-fixture
businesses that are primarily focused on commercial
and industrial markets. The goal of this project
is to develop the next-generation Integrated Digital
Control: ASIC for Networked Lighting Applications.
This ASIC will represent a 'system on a chip' for
individually addressable dimmable electronic ballasts.
This innovation will include both lamp dimming controls
and bi-directional PLC networking functions at the
lowest cost.
Eastman Kodak has been doing business
with Israel "probably as long as there’s
been an Israel," according to Director of International
Trade Relations Chris Padilla. Kodak’s main
products in Israel are photographic film and paper,
but it also sells x-ray film to hospitals. Kodak’s
revenue from Israel has been steadily growing. Padilla
explained, "American brand names do well in
Israel and Kodak is well known." He added that
Israel is a good market since it has a "stable
economy compared to other markets in the region."
Hawthorne-based J. Jamner Surgical
Instruments has been selling surgical instruments
to Israeli hospitals for 18 years. The company considers
Israel a "good and stable customer," said
Director of International Sales, Mark Sherrard. He
observed, "Health care appears to be a high
priority in Israel. The hospitals there buy only
high quality products."
The Circle Seal Corporation Aerodyne
Control Division is based in Ronkonkoma and sells
electro mechanical motion switches to Israel. The
company has been supplying the switches, which detect
motion and are used for military purposes such as
electronic circuits in bombs, to both the Israeli
government and private Israeli companies for at least
15 years. Dick Graeb, Sales Manager, finds the Israelis
to be "very confident and very ethical. I enjoy
doing business with them."
One company that took advantage
of the FMF program is American Technical Ceramics
in Huntington Station. The company sells electronic
components called capacitators, which are used in
radios, cellular systems, radar satellites and other
high frequency communications devices. In the 15
years American Technical Ceramics has been doing
business with Israel, it has found Israel to be "a
strong market," according to Steve Waldenburg,
International Sales Manager. He added, "Israel
has many hi-tech firms ideally suited to the products
my company manufactures. Many design their own products
and then choose my company’s components."
One good way to break into the Israeli market is through
a joint venture with an Israeli company. Funding for such projects is
available from the Binational
Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD). BIRD funds projects in 36 states and the District of
Columbia and hundreds of companies including AOL, GE, BP Solar, Texas
Instruments and Johnson & Johnson have benefitted from BIRD grants.
The United States and Israel established BIRD in 1977
to fund joint U.S.-Israeli teams in the development and subsequent commercialization
of innovative, nondefense technological products from which both the
Israeli and American company can expect to derive benefits commensurate
with the investments and risks. Most grant recipients are small businesses
involved with software, instrumentation, communications, medical devices
and semiconductors.
Since its inception, BIRD has funded more than 800
joint high-tech R&D projects through conditional grants totaling
more than $210 million. Products developed from these ventures have
generated more than $8 billion in direct and indirect revenues for both
countries and has helped to create an estimated 20,000 American jobs.
Dr. Eli Opper, the former Israeli chair of BIRD, has
said that BIRD is a strong pillar of US-Israel industrial
cooperation and that the extreme success of BIRD has
led Israel to adopt similar models of R&D with other countries.
Several New York companies have taken advantage of the BIRD program, including Globecomm Systems, Delta 3 and Lockheed Martin.
New York companies have shared over $11.5 million in BIRD grants since 1980, making the state the second
highest recipient after California.
Globecomm Systems designs and builds satellite ground
systems and mobile terminals used for video, television and telephony
transmission. Globecomm has received BIRD grants for
two joint projects with the Israeli company Shiron in the past four
years. In the first, they developed the ELBAN satellite terminal that
takes data and converts it to a high radio frequency so it can be transmitted
via antenna. The second project is Intersky, a high-speed, two-way Internet
connection via satellite. Both BIRD products are being
used and offered to customers. Dov Cydulkin, Senior Director of Asia-Pacific
Business, commented, "We got together and came up with ideas for
satellite communications. They have the know-how and we brought some
money. It was a good opportunity." Globecomm has sold products
to Israeli phone and TV companies and is currently working on various
projects in Israel, in addition to those sponsored by BIRD.
Delta 3, an Israeli company with an office in Monroe,
is a web-based company that offers Internet telephony - the ability
to hear voices and make telephone calls from the Internet. Director
of Marketing and Communications Fara Hain finds an enormous advantage
to having offices in both New York and Israel. "Israel is a center
for technology and there’s an incredible talent pool there. New
York is the center for public relations and promotions." Delta
3 received a BIRD grant for a communications project
with Internet Telecom Ltd.
In 1982, Kobi Alexander set up Efrat, an Israeli company
that used a BIRD grant to develop a product for multimedia
communication processing. In 1983, Efrat started Long Island-based Comverse
Technology and made that the parent company. Together, the companies
now employ over 700 workers and develop products for voice mail, fax
mail, integrated voice and fax messaging, and virtual telephone services
targeted at developing countries. Alexander told Link magazine, "Contrary
to what many people think, there’s little bureaucracy when it comes
to doing business in Israel. It’s very easy."
Decom (1994) Ltd. is an Israeli R&D company, specializing
in expert knowledge, methodology, and technical solutions in enterprise-wide
information systems, database and metadata management, geospatial data
processing and industrial implementation of data processing. New York-based
MapInfo Corporation is a worldwide leader in mapping solutions, particularly
to the GIS community via the Internet. The goal of their MapInfo Metadata
Administrator (MDA) project is to develop an Internet/Intranet family
of products that delivers new information discovery, metadata management,
and location-based technologies compliant with U.S. and industry standards.
MDA is the first industrial implementation of the OGC (Open GIS Consortium)
Catalog services, combining Decom’s unique metadata technology
with MapInfo’s spatial competencies. With MDA, organizations holding
a significant amount of digital maps may provide their customers and
employees with simple tools to rapidly find and use spatial data and
accompanying documents without prior knowledge of where those resources
may reside, how they are organized, or how they are usually accessed.
The MapInfo Metadata Administrator is designed for spatial data consumers,
clearinghouses, and spatial data providers. This is all being done through
a BIRD grant.
The New York company Acoustiguide received a BIRD grant to join with Israel’s Espro to create an automated audio
guide for museums that put voice-overs on chips, rather than tapes.
The new guide does not need jacks and plugs and feels like a cellular
phone. It is used by New York’s three leading museums - the Metropolitan,
the Guggenheim and MOMA - among others. Acoustiguide’s Amos Melamed
said in an interview with Link magazine that he worked with Espro because
"they came up with some rather amazing new technology."
General Microwave Corp. of Amityville, Long Island
received two BIRD grants to work with a subsidiary
in Israel. The first was spent on developing microwave oscillators used
in telecommunications and radar. The second is financing a fiberoptics
project. President Sherman Rinkel told Link magazine that BIRD "helped us judge the market and this gave us added confidence."
Scientific Innovations top
New York researchers are making scientific breakthroughs
and developing cutting-edge technologies in joint projects with Israeli
scientists thanks to support from the Binational
Science Foundation (BSF). BSF was established in 1972 to promote scientific relations
and cooperation between scientists from the United States and Israel.
The fund supports collaborative research projects in a wide area of
basic and applied scientific field for peaceful and non-profit purposes.
Since its inception, BSF has awarded some $480 million
through more than 4,000 grants in 45 states and the District of Columbia.
BSF-sponsored studies are highly successful
in achieving their two main goals: strengthening the US-Israel partnership
through science and promoting world-class scientific research for the
benefit of the two countries and all mankind. The BSF grants help extend research resources to achieve milestones that might
not otherwise be attainable; introduce novel approaches and techniques
to lead American researchers in new directions; confirm, clarify and
intensify research projects; and provide unmatched access to Israeli
equipment, facilities and research results that help speed American
scientific advances. BSF has documented no less than
75 new discoveries made possible by its research grants and counts 37
Nobel Prize and 19 Lasker Medical Award laureates among its joint partners.
Institutions in New York have shared with their counterparts
in Israel nearly $25 million in BSF grants awarded
since 1996 alone. Cornell, NYU, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia
University and Mount Sinai Medical Center are among those New York-based
institutions. New York ranks second to California in total BSF grants received.
Mark Aronoff, professor of linguistics
at SUNY Stony Brook, is using a grant to compare
the structures of Israeli and American sign language.
He has found that all sign languages are similar
in that they are visual and "represent reality
in a way you can’t with spoken language," although
they differ in grammatical structure. Due to his
research, the Israeli deaf community "has become
more aware of its language and its uniqueness." Although
Israeli sign language is a young language, "Educators
have come to realize that it is a language of its
own." Aronoff found his Israeli colleagues to
be "no-nonsense, and that makes them easier
to work with." He has since gotten involved
in other work in Israel involving language disorders.
Using the intense x-ray produced
at the National Synchrotron Light Source, Dr. Benjamin
Ocko, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory
is studying ultra thin organic films. Normally organic
films are grown layer-by-layer, but using a novel "self-replicative" technique
discovered by Israeli chemists Rivka Maoz and Jacob
Sagiv films can now be grown much faster. The x-ray
studies reveal that these films exhibit a very high
degree of internal structure on atomic and molecular
scales. This research could lead to future advances
in microelectronics. Ocko added that "the new
nanostructured materials being developed today often
benefit from the cooperation of scientists with different
backgrounds and our success illustrates this new
paradigm."
Professor of Neuroscience Robert Shapley of NYU received
a grant to work with a Hebrew University scientist to study how neurons
in the visual cortex respond to visual stimuli. They research how the
circuits in the brain work, and how the cortex in the brain changes
responses that come from the eye. Studying visual function in healthy
people and characterizing how the eye and neural paths work can lead
to finding how the functions are changed due to diseases such as those
of the eye or nervous system. As a result of the research, the scientists
have discovered how neurons change the selectivity of cells in the cortex.
They better understand the function of the connections between the cells
and the cortex and how the circuits change the signal seen in the eye
to the signal seen in the cortex. "My Israeli partner is interested
in modeling the cortex, its modifiability and plasticity. I’m more
analytical. We complement each other quite a lot," said Shapley.
He called the joint effort "mutually beneficial," adding that
his Israeli colleague is "more analytical than the average collaborator.
He’s a first-class scientist."
BSF-sponsored studies benefit the
U.S. by extending research resources; introducing novel approaches and
techniques that can lead American researchers to move in new directions;
confirming, clarifying and intensifying research projects; providing
access to Israeli equipment and facilities and early access to Israeli
research results that speed American scientific advances. BSF documented over 75 new discoveries that would not have been possible
without foundation-supported collaboration.
In 2013, Dor Chemicals Ltd. (Israel) and New York-based Turbulent Energy LLC will develop and commercialize diesel/methanol hybrid fuels, a joint project funded by BIRD Foundation grants.
Agriculture Benefits top
In 1978 the United States and Israel jointly created the Binational
Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD)
to help fund programs between US and Israeli scientists for mutually
beneficial, mission-oriented, strategic and applied research into agricultural
problems. Since its inception, BARD has funded more
than 1,000 projects in 45 states and the District of Columbia with a
total investment of more than $250 million. In 2000, an independent
and external economic review of 10 BARD projects conservatively
projected more than $700 million in revenue by the end of 2010, a number
which far outweighs the total investment in all BARD projects over its 33 year existence and helps to continually strengthen
the foundation.
Most BARD projects focus on either increasing agricultural
productivity, plant and animal health or food quality and safety and
have been influential in creating new technologies in drip irrigation,
pesticides, fish farming, livestock, poultry, disease control and farm
equipment. BARD funds projects in 45 states and the
District of Columbia and at present is beginning to administer collaborative
efforts between Australia, Canada and Israel as well. It is difficult
to break down the impact on a state-by-state basis, but overall, BARD-sponsored
research has generated sales of more than $500 million, tax revenues
of more than $100 million and created more than 5,000 American jobs.
New York institutions have shared grants worth more than $13.3 million
since 1979.
Martin Schreibman, Distinguished Professor of Biology
and Director of Aquatic Research at Brooklyn College, has developed
a way to control a species of fish thanks in large part to funding given
to her research team through a BARD grant.
Professor Schreibman has received BARD grants for 12 years to research fish reproduction. Schreibman and his
Israeli colleagues are working to accelerate the reproductive process,
make fish reproduce outside of their natural spawning cycle and control
the reproduction of valuable fish for farming. They are characterizing
the hormones of striped bass, their gene expression and the timing of
their release. They have cultivated a new species of fish and helped
create a prosperous fish-farming industry in Israel. In the U.S., their
research has led to the development of an evaluation kit to determine
the optimal time for breeding striped bass. Schreibman called the collaboration
a "valuable experience," commenting that Israel has some "outstanding
scientists who, besides being my colleagues, have become my friends."
He added that the Israelis he knows are "bright, hardworking and
have goals in mind that they strive to achieve."
Another BARD grant recipient is David
Stern, a scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
and adjunct professor of biology at Cornell. Stern and his Israeli colleagues
try to discover how the chloroplast cells in plants use light as a signal
to change their metabolism. They study how the genes function in chloroplast
cells, knowledge that can be applied to engineering plants and giving
them genes for new traits. Based on research done with funding from
his two grants, Stern has published articles contributing to the general
knowledge base in this field. He said that on an individual level, "There’s
a real synergy in this project. [My Israeli colleague and I] are good
friends." More globally, "Scientific and cultural ties with
Israel are important. The Israeli scientific community could be isolated
because of its geographic location. This grant brings the countries
together."
Spanning more than two decades, another BARD-sponsored
project put a group of scientists from the Boyce Thompson Institute
that included Jim Giovanni together with a large group from both North
Carolina State University and the Volcani Center in Israel to research
ways in making melon taste sweeter. Through help from the BARD foundation, the group researched and found the complete characterization
of the metabolic pathway responsible for the melon's sweet taste. The
scientists then showed that almost twenty enzymatic reactions are involved
in this process, and have further identified the key enzymes that determine
the level of sucrose in the fruit. The group publsihed a number of articles
in various academic and scientific journals, including Physiologia Plantarum.
To learn more about this study, CLICK
HERE.
Vitaly Citovsky of SUNY Stony Brook used a BARD grant to study the molecular aspects of how viruses and bacteria infect
plants. This research can lead to finding new strains of plants that
are resistant to diseases. Citovsky has already identified several key
components of host cells that are important for infection. He recognizes
that "international collaboration is an essential part of research,"
particularly in Israel where "the science system is close to ours,
unlike the European system."
NYU professor Andrew Spielman received a grant to study
bitter compounds with Israelis in Rehovot. The researchers successfully
discovered the cell biology of how the bitter taste works in orange
and lemon peels. This research can lead to finding simple ways of modifying
or masking bitterness to improve food products. Spielman used the BARD grant to go to Israel for a week of seminars and interaction with Israeli
scientists. He called his collaboration "culturally and scientifically
wonderful. The quality of scientists [in Israel] is exceptional and
the interaction within this group has been particularly good."
Cornell Professor Gary Harman worked
with Ilan Chet of Israel to control plant diseases
without pesticides. They have invented, and registered
with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a
process that changes fungus cells to protect crops
such as corn, beans and tomatoes. In trials done
with beans, the yields are double with the new process,
and the yield increased 70% with sweet corn. Harman
and Chet have formed a new company called TGT Inc.
to market their product.
One team of scientists from the
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and
Hebrew University discovered that the Trichoderma
fungus species in soil can prevent diseases in emerging
seeds and young plants. They produced new "super-strains" that
are effective on a wide range of crops. One has already
been registered with the EPA.
Another successful BARD project concluded
with the development of the Rift Valley Fever vaccine. The vaccine was
created through collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Plum Island (NY) Animal Diseases Center and Israel’s Kimron Veterinary
Institute. It will protect cattle, sheep, and even humans in developing
countries from the mosquito-borne virus.
Two Cornell University professors
are collaborating with a colleague at the Technion
to develop a method of early detection and identification
of faults in greenhouse operation. They focus on
detecting crop stress and other major faults in the
categories of sensors, control, structure and crops.
Early detection of problems could potentially increase
production, improve quality and timing of crops,
reduce required inputs per unit of production and
protect the environment.
One Cornell University-Volcani Center
team is researching which gene combinations are most
effective at creating a fungus that will fight powdery
mildew in grapevines. This can also lead to finding
a cure for fruit rot in grapes. The research can
improve the yields of the grape industries in both
the U.S. and Israel.
Cornell University and BARD have established
a framework for collaborative agricultural research between Cornell
and Israeli scientists - the Cornell
University/BARD Program (Cornell/BARD fund).
New York-Israel
Education Partnerships top
On December 19, 2011, NYC Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell
University President David J. Skorton, and Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology President Peretz Lavie announced a historic partnership
to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus
on Roosevelt Island in New York City. The
NYCTech Campus project is expected to be completed by the fall of 2013,
and groundbreaking on the first phase of the campus is expected by 2015.
Before then, an off-site campus will be open in 2012.
"Thanks to this outstanding partnership and
groundbreaking proposal from Cornell and the Technion, New York City's
goal of becoming the global leader in technological innovation is now
within sight," Mayor Bloomberg said. The campus will be structured
around the three interdisciplinary hubs of Connective Media, Healthier
Life, and the Built Environment. Cornell will immediately offer Master
and Doctoral degrees in fields such as Computer Science, Electrical
and Computer Engineering, and Information Science and Engineering. After
the accreditation process is complete, the capus will also offer unique
Technion-Cornell dual Master of Applied Sciences degrees.
Furthermore, the NYCTech campus will host entrepreneurs-in-residence,
host business competitions, provide legal support for start-ups, form
research partnerships with existing companies, sponsor research, and
start a pre-seed financing program to support excellent research proposals.
Cornell and the Technion are both global leaders of applied science,
engineering, technology and research, and development and entrepreneurship.
The Technion's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments
are considered among the best worldwide and its faculty members include
a handful of Nobel laureates, the most recent of which is Professor
Dan Shechtman for Chemistry. To read more about this exciting news and
projected plans, CLICK
HERE.
Billionaire media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman launched the $100 million Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program to promote scientific collaboration between the U.S. and Israel in New York on January 24, 2016. The program will begin in the 2016-2017 academic year, and will foster cooperation between Israeli experts and researchers, and American post-doctoral researchers and graduate students. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a statement about the program, claiming “the Zuckerman Scholars Program is a prime example of how we can keep [the New York/Israel relationship] strong today and in the future.” Zuckerman has supported a number of Jewish medical and scientific institutions through his foundation, which has pledged to fund the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program until 2036.
Other
Cooperative Programs top
The United
States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF), Syracuse University
and the Union of Local Authorities in Israel (ULA) offer two joint grants
to Israeli local authority officials, undertaking the executive education
Master of Arts in Public Administration degree program of the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.
In 2003, Cornell University and the U.S.-Israel
Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (BARD) established
a new program for
joint agricultural research.*
In September 2012, the New York Police Department (NYPD)
opened its Israeli brance in the Sharon District Police headquarters
in Kfar Saba,
in order to work more closely and maintain daily contact with the Israeli
police, whom NYPD recognizes as one of the major police forces in the
world. Charlie Ben-Naim, an Israeli-born veteran NYPD detective, traveled
to Israel to open the branch, which will not operate out of the U.S.
Embassy.
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv recieved seperate Bloomberg Philanthropy grants from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in December 2014. The Israeli cities were chosen along with twelve American cities to be recipients of the grants, which provide $400,000 to $1 million annually to projects formulating new approaches to poverty, hunger, public safety, and job growth. Over 30 cities of all sizes applied for the grants, from small cities in Colorado to large metropolitan areas like Los Angeles California. Other cities selected as recipients of these Bloomberg Philanthropy grants in 2014 were Albuquerque, New Mexico; Boston, Massachusetts; Centennial, Colorado; Jersey City, New Jersey; Long Beach, California; Los Angeles, California; Mobile, Alabama; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Peoria, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Seattle, Washington and Syracuse, New York.
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Contacts: top
AIPAC
3 East 54th St., 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-750-4110
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce
310 Madison Ave., #1103
New York, NY 10017-6009
Tel. 212-661-4106
Fax. 212-661-7930
Email. [email protected]
American Jewish Committee
165 E. 56th St.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-751-4000
American Jewish Congress
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
American Jewish World Service
15 W. 26 St., 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10010
American Joint Distribution Committee
711 Third Ave.
New York, NY 10017-4014
Tel. 212-687-6200
Fax. 212-370-5467
Anti-Defamation League
823 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Tel. 212-490-2525
American ORT
817 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
American Zionist Movement
110 East 59th St.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-318-6100
Fax. 212-935-3578
Amit Women
817 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
ARZA
838 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10021
B'nai B'rith International
823 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
CLAL
99 Park Ave., #C-300a
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-867-8888
Fax. 212-867-8853
Conference of Presidents
110 East 59th St.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-318-6111
Dept. of Economic Development
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Economic Mission of the Government
of Israel
800 2nd Ave.
New York, NY 10018
Tel. 212-499-5628
Fax. 212-499-5615
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
of New York
130 E. 59th St.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212-980-1000
Fax. 212-888-7538
Government of Israel Trade Center
800 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Hadassah
50 W. 58 St.
New York, NY 10019
Tel. 212-355-7900
HIAS
333 7th Ave.
New York, NY 10001-5004
Tel. 212-613-1304
Fax. 212-967-4483
Israeli Consulate
800 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Tel. 213-697-5500
JCC of Rockaway Peninsula
10-11 Nameoke St.
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
JCPA
443 Park Ave. S., 11th Floor
New York, NY 10016-7322
Tel. 212-684-6950
Fax. 212-686-1353
Web. http://www.jcpany.org
The Jerusalem Foundation
60 East 42nd St., #1936
New York, NY 10165
Tel. 212-697-4188
Fax. 212-697-4022
Jewish Federation Broome County
500 Clubhouse Rd
Vestal, NY 13850-3735
Tel. 607-724-2332
Jewish Federation Dutchess County
110 S Grand Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603-3009
Tel. 914-471-9811
Jewish Federation of Elmira-Corning
P.O. Box 3087
Elmira, NY 14905
Tel. 607-734-8122
Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo
787 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14209
Tel. 716-886-7750
Jewish Federation Greater Orange
County
360 Powell Ave
Newburgh, NY 12550-3412
Tel. 914-562-7860
Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester
441 East Ave.
Rochester, NY 14607
Tel. 716-461-0490
Jewish Federation of Mohawk Valley
2310 Oneida St.
Utica, NY 13501
Tel. 315-733-2343
Jewish Federation Niagara Falls
Temple Beth Israel, Rm. #5
Niagara Falls, NY 14305
Tel. 716-284-4575
Jewish Federation of Syracuse
5700 Commons Park Dr., P.O. Box 510
De Witt, NY 13214-0510
Tel. 315-445-1559
Jewish Federation Ulster County
159 Green St
Kingston, NY 12401-3736
Tel. 914-338-8131
Jewish Labor Committee
25 East 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
Jewish National Fund
42 E. 69 St.
New York, NY 10021-5093
Tel. 212-879-9300
Fax. 212-517-3293
Email. [email protected]
Jewish National Fund
78 Randall Ave.
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Tel. 516-561-9100
Fax. 516-678-3204
Email. [email protected]
Lights in Action
110 East 59th St.
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 800-539-7228
Web. http://www.lia.org
Na'amat USA
200 Madison Ave. #1808
New York, NY 10016
National Christian Leadership Conference
for Israel
134 E. 39th St.
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-213-8636
Fax. 212-683-3475
National Conference on Soviet Jewry
10 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016-1704
National Council of Jewish Women
53 W. 23rd St.
New York, NY 10010
Tel. 212-645-4048
Fax. 212-645-7466
New York-Israel Economic Development
Partnership
130 E. 59th St.
New York, NY 10022-1302
Tel. 212-836-1503
Fax. 212-888-7538
Gerry Stoch, Director
New York State Department of Economic Development
Empire State Development
217/11 Jaffa Rd.
POB 36325
Jerusalem 91363
Tel: 2-538-5330
Fax: 2-538-5313
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
New York State Trade office
P.O. Box 36325
Jerusalem, Israel 91363
Tel. 972-2-538-5330
Fax. 972-2-538-5313
Email. [email protected]
Operation Independence
350 Fifth Ave., #1921
New York, NY 10118
United Jewish Communities (UJC)
111 Eighth Ave., #11E
New York, NY 10011
Tel. 212-284-6500
Web. http://www.ujc.org
UJA
99 Park Ave. #300
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-818-9100
UJA Young Leadership
99 Park Ave., #300
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212-880-1299
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
838 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10021
United Israel Appeal
110 E. 59 St.
New York, NY 10022
United Jewish Federation of Northeastern
New York
800 New Loudon Rd.
Latham, NY 12110
Tel. 518-783-7800
Fax. 518-783-1557
Women's American ORT
315 Park Ave. S.
New York, NY 10010
Tel. 212-505-7700
Fax. 212-674-3057
Email. [email protected]
World Jewish Congress
501 Madison Ave., 17th Fl.
New York, NY 10022
YIVO Institute
15 W. 16th St.
New York, NY 10011
Tel. 212-246-6080
Fax. 292-1892
Email. [email protected]
Web: http://www.cjh.org
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