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According to the draft agreement for the sale of MDI, which BIRN has seen, a consortium of two companies, CPR-IMPEX from Belgrade and ATL Atlantic Technologies Ltd from Tel Aviv, are required to invest an additional 400,000 euro by the end of 2015.

The Serbo-Israeli joint offer was the sole bid for the tender, which was completed in last December.  

BELGRADE/ISTANBUL - The Tourist Organisation of Belgrade will present Serbia at the Tourism Fair in Istanbul from January 22 to 25, and the stand with the offer of Belgrade and Serbia was visited by Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas after the official opening ceremony, the Secretariat for Economy released.

A knife-wielding Palestinian attacked passengers on a bus in Tel Aviv on Jan. 21 wounding at least 12 people before being shot by a passing prison officer, Israeli police said.        

An attacker has stabbed at least nine people traveling in a bus in central Tel Aviv, Israeli police say.

Two of the wounded are in critical condition, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The perpetrator, 23, has been shot by police officers after attempting to flee and has been wounded.

Police reports suggest he is from the West Bank city of Tulkarem.

Israel said on Jan. 18 it had cracked the first Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cell on its soil, made up of seven Arab citizens who would be prosecuted on charges of planning attacks in the Jewish state and communicating with the insurgent group in Syria.
   

By Alexandra Kassimi

Airlines are seeking to cover the gap left by Cyprus Airways? sudden shutdown last Friday, with Greece?s leading carrier Aegean Airlines making plans to increase its presence on the Eastern Mediterranean island.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won another term as leader of the ruling rightwing Likud ahead of a snap election, the faction said Jan. 1, easily defeating his lone hard-right challenger.
      

Israel police rounded up eight Jewish extremists from a racist anti-Arab organisation overnight, a spokeswoman said early Dec. 21, in the second such swoop targeting the group within a week.

The suspects were rounded up in a series of raids across central and southern Israel and the occupied West Bank, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.        

IDC shows over 100 diamonds in Belgrade exhibition

BELGRADE -- Israel Diamond Center, also known as the House of Diamonds, has opened its first exhibition of diamonds in Belgrade, Tanjug reported.

The exhibition presents over 100 jewelry pieces, including a heart-shaped yellow diamond worth half a million euros.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Dec. 14 rejected talk of Israel withdrawing from east Jerusalem and the West Bank within two years, on the eve of a meeting with the top US diplomat.
      
"We... stand against the possibility of a diplomatic assault, that is an attempt to compel us by means of UN decisions to withdraw to the 1967 lines within two years," said Netanyahu.