Gen. Natynczyk arrived in Israel on October 18th  for a three day work visit as guest of the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi. Over the course of the three days, Gen. Natynczyk held meetings with Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi, and Israel's Minister of Defense, Mr. Ehud Barak, and toured Israel.

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 Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday, the Nobel committee in Stockholm announced. Yonath shares the prize with Britain's Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, an American, for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, a part of the cell that synthesizes protein and translates genetic code in the production of protein.

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On September 9, 2009, the Embassy of Israel, together with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, held a conference to highlight and celebrate 60 years of relations between the two countries. Among the topics discussed were the evolution of Canada-Israel relations, as well as issues which shape both countries policies, such as multiculturalism, immigration, democracy and human rights.

The Embassy of Israel in Ottawa, marking 60 years of Diplomatic Relations between Israel and Canada, was delighted to present the film 9.99$, at Ottawa's International Animation Festival, which was held from October 14-18, 2009. The feature film is a debut for Israeli born director/animator Tatia Rosenthal, who turned Etgar Keret’s macabre short stories into an animated movie. 

Followed by the world wide success last year of the Israeli animated film “Waltz with Bashir” comes this beautiful animated feature, and shows again that The animation industry in Israel has indeed taken a major leap forward in the last decade. Today, the animation industry in Israel, combining that special sense of Israeli technical know-how with a genuine creativity and love for the arts, offers a range of highly professional and well-equipped animation studios, which excel in the competition to create innovative animation that is loved and celebrated all around the globe.

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“The most urgent challenge facing this body (the United Nations) is to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Are the member states of the United Nations up to that challenge? Will the international community confront a despotism that terrorizes its own people as they bravely stand up for freedom?”

 –  Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu before the UN General Assembly, New York, 24 September 2009

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