[Globes] - The contracts were won by VSI, a joint venture of Elbit and Rockwell Collins.

An Elbit Systems Ltd. joint venture with Rockwell Collins has received several new contracts, with a total value of more than $54.1 million, for electronics systems for the F-35 aircraft.

The venture, Vision Systems International, LLC (VSI), signed deals with Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the delivery of 52 F-35 Helmet Mounted Displays and 30 additional aircraft systems.

[YNET] - New Delhi news agencies say Israel Military Industries, six other arms manufacturers, blacklisted for alleged illicit trading, bribing officials. Billions of dollars worth of defense contracts in jeopardy
Arie Egozi

The Israel Military Industries (IMI) have recently been blacklisted by the Indian government, as all arms trade with the southern Asian nation has been halted, putting billions of dollars worth of defense contracts at risk.

Ottawa - Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) voted to join the growing international campaign in support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, at its first Annual General Meeting this past weekend.

“Enough. It’s time for a Boycott”
Naomi Klein, The Guardian, 10 January 2009

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) Cordially invites you to a lecture by:

Naomi Klein

The award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the #1 international bestseller, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” and the internationally acclaimed “No Logo”*

Date: Saturday, 27 June
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Place: Friends School Hall, Ramallah

For further information please contact:

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is writing to urge you not to accept Israeli government funding for the hosting of a one-month series of new Israeli films beginning in June 2009. We understand that the program for the film series indicates that it is being organized in cooperation with the Israeli embassy in Switzerland. Collaborating with the Israeli government just as Israel ended its bloody war against the occupied Gaza Strip, would be tantamount to endorsement of the heinous war crimes it has committed and is still committing in Gaza.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) urges all filmmakers, particularly Palestinian filmmakers, not to take part in the 45th Mostra Internationale del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro, Italy.  Italian solidarity groups, responding to the Palestinian call for boycott, have called for a boycott of the Festival due to its hosting of a retrospective on Israeli cinema, in collaboration with the Israel Film Fund, an organization that is founded and funded by the Israeli government.

Martijn Lauwens - The Belgian-French financial group Dexia has announced it will no longer finance Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories through its Israeli branch Dexia Israel.

This is the result of a months-long campaign in Belgium, supported by NGO’s, political parties, local authorities, trade unions and other organisations. Dexia’s management states that financing Israeli settlements is indeed against the bank’s code of ethics and it will stop giving loans due to this.