[Globes] - Deliveries of the $10.9 million order will be made this year.

Rabintex Industries Ltd. (TASE: RABN) US subsidiary Burtek Inc. has signed a $10.9 million follow-on contract with Lockheed Martin Co (NYSE: LMT) for the delivery of antenna transport and position systems and command and control carriages for radar systems. Deliveries will be made by the end of this year.

Rabintex's share rose 0.6% by mid-afternoon to NIS 4.22.

[Globes] - The equipment is for the land forces of a European army that is a member of NATO.

ITL Optronics Ltd. (TASE: ITL) has won a NIS 21.5 million follow-on order for night-vision equipment for the land forces of a European army that is a member of NATO. Deliveries will be made during the second half of 2009. 

[Globes] - The firm will supply the US Navy with a gun system designed for fast maneuvering patrol boats.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has won a US Navy tender to supply $48 million of its Mini-Typhoon anti-terror gun stations. In the final stage of the tender Rafael prevailed over major international companies including Norway's Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace.

*New York, NY, May 9 *– On the day before Mother’s Day, 40 New York human rights advocates gathered at the Leviev jewelry store on Madison Avenue and called on throngs of weekend Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in West Bank villages including Bil’in and Jayyous.

Defense Industry Daily - Launched between 1988-1995, and commissioned between 1992-1996, Canada’s 12 City Class (now Halifax Class) frigates currently form the high end of its naval capabilities. The Canadian Navy has declined drastically from its post-WWII status as the world’s 4th largest navy, and the Halifax Class itself is finding that its open-ocean design is not suited to cope with modern littoral threats and improving anti-ship missiles.

The York Center for International and Security Studies (YCISS) at York University in Toronto is sponsoring a public debate on the academic institutional boycott of Israel. The panel-style debate will explore themes of academic freedom and repression in relation to calls for an academic boycott of Israel, with an
emphasis on the role and responsibilities of Canadian universities. It will feature discussion by:

Dr. Abigail Bakan       Professor of Political Studies and Women‘s

Globes - Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has won a US Navy tender to supply $48 million of its Mini-Typhoon anti-terror gun stations. In the final stage of the tender Rafael prevailed over major international companies including Norway's Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace.