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Israel-Alberta Relations Israel – Alberta Relations PROFILE OVERVIEW . As a pioneer in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Israel is one of the biggest military Capital: TBD (official selection of the capital is . Canada recognized the State of Israel upon drone exporters in the world with commercial being negotiated between the Israel and its founding in 1948, and the two countries drones being a natural extension of growth. Palestine). established formal diplomatic relations on May 11, 1949. Alberta’s exports to Israel averaged $18.45 Population: 8.38 million (2016). million from 2012 to 2016, consisting mostly Language: Hebrew (official), Arabic, English. The Canadian Jewish community, currently of salt, sulfur, earth, stone, cereals, animal around 350,000, acts as an important bridge feed, plastic, and electrical machinery. Government: Unicameral Knesset or Parliament between Canada and Israel. (120 seat, members elected by proportional . Alberta’s imports from Israel averaged $40.5 representation to serve four-year terms). 2009 marked the 60th anniversary of million from 2012 to 2016, consisting mostly diplomatic relations between Canada and of stone, plaster, cement, plastic, electrical Head of State: President Reuven Rivlin. Israel. machinery, and machinery. Head of Government: Prime Minister Benjamin TRADE AND INVESTMENT Netanyahu. ENERGY . Israel is in the unique position of having free Currency: CAD $1 = 2.8952 New Shekel (ILS) . Israel is strategically located for regional trade agreements with the United States, (2016). energy transit to the Middle East, Europe and the European Union and Canada. Asia. It shares pipeline access with several GDP: US $383.86 billion (2015). Middle Eastern countries, including both . The Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Jordan and Egypt. The reliability of pipeline GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP): US $289 (CIFTA) has been in force since January operation, however, is questionable in the billion (2015). 1997, eliminating all tariffs on industrial region due to the political instability in the products, and on some agricultural and fish GDP Per Capita: US $45,824 (2015). area and previous attacks on several different and seafood products. lines. GDP Growth Rate: 2.51 per cent (2015). In January 2014, Canada and Israel . As of January 2014, the Oil & Gas Journal Inflation: -0.6 per cent (2015). announced the launch of negotiations to estimated Israel's proved reserves of oil at expand and modernize the CIFTA. 11.5 million barrels and its proved reserves of Negotiations are ongoing. Key Industry Sectors: high-technology products natural gas at 10.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). (including aviation, communications, computer- . Although kosher certification is not a legal While neither figure places Israel in the top-40 aided design and manufactures, medical requirement to export to the Israeli market, globally, these totals are significantly higher electronics, fiber optics), wood and paper supermarkets and hotels will not purchase than they were a few years ago. products, potash and phosphates, food, non-Kosher products. beverages, and tobacco, caustic soda, cement, . In January 2009, 9 tcf of natural gas was construction, metals products, chemical products, . In 1994, Canada and Israel created the discovered in the Tamar fields (located plastics, diamond cutting, textiles and footwear. Canada-Israel Industrial Research and offshore, near Haifa). Israel began commercial production of natural gas from the Development Foundation (CIIRDF) to promote collaborative R&D between firms in Tamar field in March 2013. Sources: Global Affairs Canada, International Monetary both countries. This program was renewed Fund, The World Factbook in 2006. February 2017 | Input provided by Alberta Ministries of: Economic Development and Trade, Agriculture and Forestry, Advanced Education . The most recent offshore discovery occurred discovered massive unconventional oil and . UCalgary School of Public Policy and the at the Tamar Southwest exploration well. gas deposits. Haskayne MBA students participate each Located eight miles southwest of the Tamar Spring in a graduate Group Study Program Field, the Tamar Southwest field may contain . In 2013-14, MacEwan employed a PhD ‘field school’ in Israel. more than 500 billion cubic feet of natural student from Hebrew University to work on a gas. research project, funded by MacEwan's . In 2005, Alberta’s Ministry of Infrastructure Research Services Office. and Transportation signed a water . The most significant find in offshore Israel is conservation and irrigation research the Leviathan field, located approximately . A MacEwan staff member (Kenneth Ristau) agreement with the Jewish National Fund of 80 miles off the coast and situated in water was a Fellow of the W. F. Albright Institute Canada. that is more than 5,000 feet deep. of Archaeological Research in Israel in Assessments of the Leviathan field indicate 2012/2013 and participated in . The University of Lethbridge has offered its that there could be as much as 19 Tcf of archaeological excavations at Ramat students the opportunity to train at the Tel recoverable natural gas in place. Production Rachel in the summer of 2009, and at Tel Beth Shemesh Archaeological Field School could begin at Leviathan in 2016 at the Dor in the summers of 2006 and 2007. in Israel since 1989. Participants have earliest. uncovered significant archaeological finds . Political Science faculty member JC such as a seal discovered at Beth . Commercially viable amounts of natural gas Boucher works on conflict management Shemesh, an archaeological site located from the Mari B reserve have been which pertains directly to the Israel- between the Biblical cities of Zorah and supplying Israel with natural gas since 2004, Palestine conflict. Eshtaol, along with other finds on the floor but production plummeted in 2012 as the of an excavated house dated by . The University of Alberta has academic field entered the final stages of depletion. archaeologists to the 12th century BCE. relations with several Israeli universities (but . While historically Israel has been an no formal agreement). COMMUNITY importer of natural gas, the discoveries of . In March 2016, UAlberta's Vice-President the Tamar and Leviathan fields (among . The Jewish community in Alberta numbers (Research) and various members of the several others) should allow the country to approximately 15,000, mostly in Edmonton Faculties of Science and Engineering took become a significant exporter of natural gas and Calgary. part in the Weizmann-Alberta Nanoscience in the next decade. There are competing Meeting at the Weizmann Institute of . Of the many Jewish cultural and charitable proposals to develop pipelines and LNG Science in Israel. organizations and activities in Alberta, the infrastructure to support natural gas exports, Jewish Federation, Hadassah and the but deliberations about how Israel will get its . The University of Calgary (U of C) has Jewish National Fund have been the most natural gas to market are ongoing. exchange agreements with the Hebrew prominent. University of Jerusalem and with the EDUCATION AND CULTURE University of Hafia. Since 1979, Calgary-based Kahanoff . Advanced Education provides funding to Foundation has provided close to $50 . The Israel Studies Program in the Faculty of Alberta post-secondary institutions through million to charitable programs in Israel in the Arts makes the U of C an important centre the Campus Alberta Grant for International areas of health, education, culture, social of this emerging multidisciplinary analysis of Learning which allows institutions to develop services, philanthropy and community Israeli history, politics, society, and culture. short-term study abroad programs in other development, and research. countries including Israel. The U of C has an innovative AGRICULTURE interdisciplinary M.A. program in Israel . During 2015-16 there were 36 international Studies that explores critical issues in . Alberta’s total agriculture and food exports students from Israel registered in post- contemporary Israeli history and politics, to Israel in 2016 reached $8 million. secondary degree, diploma and certificate and provides insight into the issues that programs in Alberta. Israel has traditionally been a large Israel will face in the future. purchaser of Alberta wheat ($5 million in . In June 2012, Canada and Israel signed an . The Hotchkiss Brain Institute has extensive 2014); however, in 2016 wheat dropped off, Energy cooperation agreement. One aspect research links and hosted the Israel-Alberta and exports were dominated by pet food ($4 of the agreement will encompass how Neuroscience Symposium in 2015. million) and canola seed ($3 million). Canada can help Israel develop its recently . Total agriculture imports to Alberta from Israel . August 2014: His Excellency Rafael Barak in 2016 were $1.2 million, dominated by visited Edmonton and met with the Premier, guavas and mangoes (combined $0.4 million) Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, Deputy and greenhouse peppers ($0.3 million). Ministers of Agriculture and Rural Development and Transportation, Assistant . Israel imports 70 per cent of its food Deputy Minister Policy, Environment and products, and the Israeli private Sustainable Resource Development, and consumption is growing at 5 per cent per Leader of the Official Opposition. year. December 2012: Her Excellency Miriam Ziv . While Alberta’s best opportunities will be visited Edmonton and met with the Premier, grains and pulses, other items of interest
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