This should give a big incentive for the BDS movement to get going in Jersey City!

Jersey City welcomes Israeli startups for conference

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
on June 23, 2014 at 5:31 PM

Jersey City hosted a conference today for eight Israeli startup companies, with participants saying they hope the showcase will lead to more businesses choosing New Jersey and Jersey City in particular as a home base.

Ido Aharoni, Consul General of Israel in New York, who last appeared at City Hall for an Israeli flag raising last month, said today the conference was a way to introduce Israel's "competitive edge" and "enormous degree of creativity" to American investors.

"We've been spending too much time and too much energy discussing our geopolitical problems, which are important, but for the most part, irrelevant for the average American," Aharoni told The Jersey Journal.

Israel has more startups per capita than any other country on the globe and is No. 2, after the United States, in the total number of these newly established companies. Officials with eight of them, including Pango, which says its app can cut down waiting times at parking garages, and Farmigo, an online farmers market that connects farmers with customers, appeared at today's showcase.

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