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Israel Prize Ceremony
Professor Shpigel Ya'acov head of the Responsa Project in Bar Ilan University since 1997
(on the right) and Itzhak Levit the CEO at C.D.I. Systems - at the Israel Prize
Ceremony – Jerusalem April 24 2007
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The Responsa Project received yesterday (April 24 2007) the Israel Prize in the field of Torah
literature for the year 2007. The Israel Prize is the most highly regarded award in Israel and is
presented to the recipient in the presence of Knesset members, the Prime Minister, the President
and Supreme Court Judges of Israel.
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Among others, the judges emphasized that "the Responsa Project combines Torah with advanced technology"
as Rav Kook wrote: "the ancient would be renewed and the new would be sanctified." It has been said that
no other application is so serious and so successful in using the modern progressive tool to enrich the
Jewish studies in Israel as becomes in the Responsa Project.
Since the Responsa Project was released online, it enables all internet users' full access to
its Jewish cultural treasures, thanks to C.D.I.'s NetIS – one of the most advanced technologies for online
publishing worldwide.
About C.D.I. Systems
C.D.I. Systems, is a private high-tech company founded in 1992 by Mr. Hillel Ashkenazy,
advocate and chairman of the company, managed by a professional, experienced, devoted,
and creative management team.
Focused on the development of a unique and innovative online publishing platform - NetIS™,
the company has successfully deployed scores of solutions for the Internet, Intranet,
DVD/CD-ROMs and Handheld devices. To mention a few: Takdin, Israel's premier legal
databases both online and on CD-ROM; Dun & Bradstreet's Israel Business Directory; IDC
Israel pay per view site; Otzar HaHochma - the World's Largest Electronic Library (with
roughly five million pages); The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book - a comprehensive
interactive bibliography of all books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1473 and 1960;
The Israeli Electorate Registry; The Israeli General Encyclopedia; The Globes daily
newspaper archive and a multitude of legal information solutions in Germany through our
German partners.
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