Useful Links
The Chamber maintained a curated link directory for members and for companies researching either market. It was organised into nine categories, and the structure itself is informative: it shows what a company moving between these two markets actually needed to know.
Note. The original directory's individual entries pointed at addresses that are, more than a decade later, largely dead or reassigned. Rather than reproduce a list of broken links, this page preserves the categories and points at the current authoritative source in each.
The Nine Categories
Israeli Academic Institutions
Israel's universities and research institutes were central to the Chamber's work, both as sources of the technology its member companies were commercialising and as partners in the joint research programmes it helped assemble. Research-partnership visits were a recurring item in the calendar.
Israeli Government Sites
Ministries, the customs authority, the Chief Scientist's office and the economic missions abroad. The Chamber worked most closely with the Consulate General of Israel for the Southeast, based in Atlanta, and with the government economic mission attached to it.
Israeli Media
Business and general press, used by members tracking a market they did not live in. The Chamber's own monthly newsletter did much the same job in condensed form — see publications.
Israeli Trade and Economy
Export institutes, sector associations and statistical sources. The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics remains the primary source for the underlying economic data.
Other Israeli Interests
General reference for people travelling or relocating — the practical layer beneath the commercial one.
Southeastern U.S. Government
State governments and their agencies across the Chamber's six-state territory, plus federal trade bodies. For incoming companies the state economic development agencies were often the most consequential single contact, since they controlled the incentives.
Southeastern U.S. Trade and Economy
Regional chambers, industry associations and economic data. For national trade statistics the US Census Bureau foreign trade division is the standing source.
Other Southeastern U.S. Interests
Community, cultural and relocation references for arriving executives and their families — a genuine part of the Chamber's practical value, since a US posting is a household decision as much as a corporate one.
Southeastern U.S. Media
Regional business press, used in both directions: by Israeli companies researching the market, and by the Chamber itself to place news of member activity.
Current Standing References
For anyone doing this research today, four sources carry most of what the original directory was pointing toward:
- US Commercial Service country commercial guide for Israel — market conditions, sectors and entry mechanics.
- Office of the United States Trade Representative — the free trade agreement itself.
- Israel Central Bureau of Statistics — Israeli economic and trade data.
- BIRD Foundation — binational industrial research and development funding.
More of the Chamber's reference material is on the resources page.
What the Structure Reveals
The directory's nine categories fall into a deliberate symmetry: four Israeli categories, four Southeastern ones, and a media category on each side. That mirroring runs through everything the Chamber built — parallel service tracks, an American board and an Israeli advisory board, missions in both directions — and it followed directly from a mission statement that named both economies rather than privileging one.
The inclusion of "other interests" categories on both sides is also telling. A directory built purely for commercial research would not need them. They existed because the Chamber understood that a US posting or an Israeli business trip is a human undertaking as well as a commercial one, and that the practical questions — schools, community, where to live — determine whether an executive posting succeeds at least as often as the commercial ones do.
Using Historical Link Directories
Curated link directories were a standard feature of organisational websites through the 2000s, and they age badly: institutions rename themselves, agencies merge, domains lapse and content management systems reorganise their addresses. A decade-old directory is therefore rarely useful as a set of links, but often useful as a set of categories — it tells you what the compiling organisation thought mattered, which is information the individual links never carried.
That is how this page is preserved: the taxonomy intact, the addresses replaced with sources that are current.