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Israel
Israel
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CommunityCo-ops are key to a bottom-up approach to peace building
The conference heard from co-operators and researchers involved in peace projects
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SectorJewish community in North London plans to boycott new Co-op shop
The boycott is in response to the Group's sourcing policy
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CommunityArab Bedouin Volunteer Center receives Award for Excellence
Ajeec-Nisped’s Arab Bedouin Volunteer Center (“The Tent”) has received the President’s Award for Excellence in a Volunteer Organisation in Israel. The Center for Cooperative Development of the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development...
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Co-operative exchange between China and Israel
Fourteen co-operators from across China visited Israel for an exchange initiative. The members, from the All China Federation of Marketing Co-operative, took a course on the Israeli co-operative experience. They visited Kibbutz Shefayim and the Milout Secondary...
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Banking and InsuranceCan a co-operative break the banking monopoly in Israel?
Banking co-op Ofek hopes to bring more competition to Israel’s financial sector if it can attract the 15,000 shareholders it needs to be viable. The co-operative was founded in 2012 after 400,000 people took to the streets to protest...
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DemocracyCooperatives can offer solutions to hunger and poverty, President of Costa Rica says
FAO nominates Special Ambassadors for cooperatives The cooperative model offers unique solutions to "free people from hunger and poverty in a globalized world in which crises, including climate change, touch everyone", President of Costa Rica...
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Agriculture
Cheese Board Collective: 40 years in the Gourmet Ghetto
Sarah Henry tells the story of the Cheese Board Collective in Berkeleyside. "The Cheese Board opened in 1967, when revolution was in the air, in the slip of a space that now houses The...
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Impossible dream can become reality
THROUGHOUT his life, Dr Yehudah Paz has worked for peace, political justice, and the cause of international co-operation. At the recent Co-op Congress in Glasgow, he received the 2005 Blandford Prize for his work on...
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Democracy
The World of Co-operation
Israeli co-op takeover Bank Hapoalim is to finance half the purchase of the Blue Square Co-op supermarket chain, David (Dudi) Weissman, a major shareholder and president of the Alon-Dor energy and retail group, which bid...
