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Article: Internet World's New York Trade Show Features Israel Pavilion.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 11, 1997
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NEW YORK--Dec. 11--Internet World, this week's big trade show about what's new in cyberspace, features one pavilion set up not by one of the corporate giants so much in evidence here, but by a country.
Israel.
Among the 600 booths touting Internet-related products from California's Silicon Valley to its New York counterpart, Silicon Alley, the collection of start-up companies and their representatives milling around the Israeli exhibit tell of a high-tech boom going on in a cluster of towns around Tel Aviv.
That region is now sometimes referred to as the Silicon Wadi, "wadi" being Arabic for "valley," according to Elon Ganor, ...