پرچم عدالت خواهي را همواره پيامبران الهي و پيروان راستين آنان بر دوش كشيده‌اند.امروز و هميشه مجاهدت در زير اين پرچم، صادقانه ترين نشانه‌ي پيروي از رسولان الهي است. آنچه در كنار همه‌ي الزامات اين حركت، ضروري و حياتي است آن است كه اوّلاً مراقبت شود كساني با انگيزه هاي ديگر، اين شعار حق را ابزار نكنند. و ثانياً به نام عدالت طلبي، حركتي غير منصفانه از سر جهل يا غفلت انجام نگيرد. صبر و بصيرت را براي شما و ديگر تشكلهاي عزيز دانشجوئي از خداوند متعال مسألت ميكنم. مقام معظم رهبري

آخرين اسناد صهيونيستي بودن نستله به زبان انگليسي و ليست برخي از اسناد قديمي صهيونيستي بودن نستله به زبان فارسي+ اسناد کمک نستله به صندوق هولوکاست
نستله باني گلوله‌هاي اسرائيل  (ويژه)  


شركت نستله  ايران نماينده فروش انحصاري نستله  سوئيس ( اس – آ) و ادارات فروش و توزيع محصولات نستله  را نيز بر عهده دارد.  نستله  سوئيس مالك اعظم سهام نستله  ايران بوده و مديريت اين شركت را نيز برعهده داشته و همچنين تعيين كننده بازارهاي هدف و ميزان صادرات براي نستله  ايران مي باشد. تيم نستله  ايران متشكل از 180 نفر پرسنل حرفه‌‌اي آموزش ديده است. امور مشتريان نستله   با 5000 نفر از خانم هاي ايراني ارتباط نزديك داشته و به آن‌ها آموزش مي‌دهد. همچنين اين شركت از 10 ماشين تبليغاتي براي توزيع و تبليغ محصولات خود  استفاده مي‌كند.

  
 
شنبه 26 تیرماه 1389  

 


NESTLE

Nestlé employs around 280,000 people worldwide with factories or operations in almost every country in the world[1]. It is the world's largest food company, considerably larger of than its nearest rivals Kraft Foods Inc. and Unilever plc. With products like Nescafé and Perrier, Nestle is the market leader worldwide in coffee and mineral water, the largest manufacturer of pet food, and is fast increasing its share of the ice cream market.[2]

Nestle has 9 factories in Israel, which after China(18) and Russia(11) is the highest number in any country in Asia.

NESTLE IN ISRAEL - OSEM

Nestle's main investment in Israel is its 53.8% stake in Osem, which according to  Nestle's financial statement for 2009[8] is worth over US $850 million. Osem is Israels 4th largest food & beverages company (by turnover) after Tnuva, Strauss and Coca-Cola. It has a turnover of $778 million and nearly 5000 employees in 14 factories[7]. Osem brands include Beit Hashitah (pickles), Of Tov (frozen meat products), Habait (ready made cakes) and Sabra Salads (ready-made salads and spreads).

Osem's subsiduary Tivall, which is one of the world's leading suppliers of meat-substitute products, is independently ranked as Israels 14th largest food company with a turnover of $178 million and nearly 700 employees. Osem has a 58% stake in Tivall[7].


ISRAEL THANKS NESTLE, NESTLE CELEBRATES ISRAELS 60TH

On the eve of the brutal attack on Gaza, Israel's President Shimon Peres visited the Nestle plant in Sderot and thanked Nestle subsiduary Osem for its bolstering of Israels economy: "I thank Osem for investing in Sderot.. I thank you for your determination, your courage and your contribution to Israel's industry and our resilience."[30][31] A couple of months before that, in October 2008, Nestle had flung open its gates to invite the Israeli public to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel's "independence" aka the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.[32]

Ten years earlier, in 1998, at Israels 50th Anniversary it was Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who bestowed Israels Jubilee Award on Nestle. This is the highest tribute ever awarded by the "State of Israel" in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy. Nestle CEO Mr. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe received the award on behalf of Nestle[34]. (For more on Peter Brabeck see [35])


NESTLE IN SDEROT - BUILT ON ASHES OF PALESTINIAN VILLAGE

Nestle (through its subsituary Osem) is the biggest employer in the entire area adjacent to the Gaza Strip with its plant in Sderot empolying 480 workers, making 170 different products[15]. On June 4th 2002 Nestle opened a new $5.6 million Global Research and Development centre in Sderot near their existing plant[36]. The 1,700 metre plant is located on the land of the Palestinian village of Al-Najd.

719 Palestinian inhabitants of the village of Al-Najd were ethnically cleansed in 1948. The village with its 139 homes was completely destroyed, to be replaced by the settlement of Sderot in 1951[16]. Palestinian Arabs own 12,669 dunums in Najd although Israel refuses to honor their rights to their personal property, and refuses them their inalienable right to return home. In 1945 Jews owned just 495 dunums of land in Najd and public lands consisted of 412 dunums[18]. Many of the Palestinian survivors and their children, made refugees are now living less than a mile away in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade provided grants to Nestle worth up to nearly a quarter of the total investment for settling in Sderot, being situated in an unpopular deprived area of Israel along the Gaza Strip[17].

Nestle is the life-line for the settler town consisting of 23,000 Jewish settlers, more than half are recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Unemployment is "sky high", those with higher education having long gone, leaving behind unskilled laborers[19]. The other life-line of the town was the charitable donations it received for being 'victim' to Qassam rockets from Gaza. As the rockets stopped coming so did the donations and the towns Mayor Mayor David Buskila and Peretz  has declared Sderot, with a deficit of nearly US$7 million, is on the brink of bakruptcy - "the collapse of the city will occur in the coming months unless a miracle happens."[20][22]


NESTLE HELPING OPEN NEW MARKETS FOR ISRAEL

Nestle is helping open new markets for Israel which otherwise would be difficult for Israeli companies to penetrate.

Nestle's Israeli subsiduary Osem which already sells its meat substitute products (Tivall) in Europe was seeking to expand sales to North America. In 2009 Nestle aquired US vegetarian food producer FoodTech for $20 million giving Israel's meat substitute producer Tivall, for the first time, a firm footing in the US market[9].

In 2008 Nestle aquired Tribe Mediterranean for US$57 million instantly giving Nestle subsiduary Osem a 17 percent share of the Mediterranen chilled salad market in the United States[10].

In 2003 Nestle sold its profitable ice cream plant in Spain to buy one in Israel that has "always been a money loser"[14]. The Israeli Tnuva dairy company was looking to dump its stock, it sold its 47% stake in Noga Ice Creams to Nestle subsiduary Osem for $7.8 million[13]. Three years later in 2006 the Nestle ice-cream plant in Kiryat Malachi began exporting ice cream to Switzerland under brand "Heaven" with expected sales to reach $1 million in 2006. Nestle Israel CEO Yehudi Lipman said "Switzerland is the latest in a number of international markets, including the US, France, the UK, South Africa, and others, to which Nestle Israel exports its produce"[11].

In 2009 Osem UK (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Osem) aquired Yarden G.B. Limited, which has been operating in England for two decades in the field of refrigerated, frozen and kosher food, for £1.9 million[12][40].

In 2010 Nestle again increased its investment in Israel by buying a 51% stake in Israeli babyfood company Materna Laboratories for $72 million.[29]


NESTLE TRANSFERING KNOW-HOW TO ISRAEL

The Osem website catalogues the rapid investment Nestle has made in Osem and the benefits Osem had gained as a result[21]. It states Nestles investment "has led to a knowledge transfer agreement in which Osem is entitled to receive assistance from Nestlé for product research and development, information systems and food technology." The agreement was signed in 1998 allowing the transfer of Nestle's global know-how in product research and development, information systems and food technology to Israel. The was followed by the launching of Nestles worldwide Snacks R&D Center built at the Osem facility in Sderot (2002), and a modern distribution center at Ramat Hashofet(2003).

With its R&D invested in Israel, the development facility in Sderot is becoming a global training center for Nestle staff from around the world.[26]


NESTLE AND THE IDF

Osem (Nestles Israel operation) has historic links to the IDF as its food provider. Osem's flagship product Bamba started out as army food. Osems website explains: "Bamba started out in the Israeli army canteen service and in the 1967 Six Day War. The soldiers welcomed this snack enthusiastically and took it home with them at the end of the war. From this point on, Bamba became a snack for the whole family"[33].

<iboxr>img/nestle-bamba.jpg<icap>Support Israel - Buy Osem Bamba<br>"Bamba started out in the Israeli army canteen service.."</iboxr>

This historic link with the military continues to this day. At the request of the army, Nestle's R&D centre produced a patented nougat-filled breakfast cereal for Israeli soldiers. Israeli soldiers apparently liked to combine the flavors of Bamba, a peanut based snack, with chocolate paste, so Nestle obliged and Bamba Nougat was launched in 2009 in limited edition. If future Nestle plans to market the new product around the world (Crunch Rolls Nougat).[24][25]


ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT

Nestles continued increase in its stake in Osem from 10% in 1996 to 53% 10 years later in 2006 drew the attention of the Arab League boycott office recently which in July 2006 threatened to add Nestle to its boycott list unless the company liquidated its activity in Israel, including its stake in Osem.[23] Ironically it was the collapse of the Arab Boycott after Oslo that prompted Nestle's entry in to Israel.[27] The other incentive was tax breaks promised by Israel (convention preventing double taxation between Israel and Switzerland)[28].


NESTLE AND ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS

In 2009 Osem UK, which is a wholly-owned by Nestle subsidiary Osem in Israel, aquired Yarden G.B. Limited[37][40]. Yarden GB's product range includes chilled meats and Yarden wines[39] from the Golan Heights Winery, located in Katzrin on the illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Golan Heights Winery exports 38% of all Israeli wines, its wine brands also include Gamla and Golan[38].


L'OREAL: NESTLE MAIN SHAREHOLDER WITH FOUNDERS FAMILY

In February 2004 Nestle aquired a 26.4% holding in  L’Oréal as a result of the merger of  L’Oréal with Gesparal (49% owned by Nestle). The other major shareholder is  Liliane Bettencourt, holding 27.5% stock of L’Oréal - the company her father Eugène Schueller founded in 1909[4].

By March 2010, Nestle had increased its stake in L'Oreal to 30%, whilst the founders daughter, Lilian Bettencourt, ownes 31%. L'Oreal has a 15 percent share of the world cosmetics market[5].

According to Nestle's financial statement for 2009, it holds 178,381,021 shares in L’Oréal, at the time representing a 30.5% equity, worth US $21.3 billion.[6]

L'Oreal has established Israel as its commercial center for the entire Middle East and has increased investment and manufacturing activities in Israel ranging from a production line established in Migdal Haemek, to joint research and development projects with Israeli affiliates, as well as education and public service campaigns. In return Israel has awarded L'Oreal, like Nestle, its Jubilee Award. Mr. Pascal Castres St Martin on behalf of L' Oreal received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in 1998 - the highest tribute ever awarded by the "State of Israel" in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy. For more details on L'Oreal's complicity in the Israeli occupation please see http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-l-oreal.html.


[1] http://www.nestle.com/AllAbout/AtGlance/Introduction/Introduction.htm
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Nestlé with headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé and is today the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Sales for 2009 were CHF  108 bn. We employ around 280 000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world.

(Conversion rate 1 Swiss Frac(CHF) = 0.936 US dollar)


[2] http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=237
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[3] Nestle annual report 2009
http://www.nestle.com/Resource.axd?Id=585806D1-BC1B-404B-A03F-F7A68A68F436


[4] http://www.nestle.com/MediaCenter/PressReleases/AllPressReleases/lOr%C3%A9alRelationshipNewBasis-3Feb03.htm

[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A2NS20100311]
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[6] http://www.nestle.com/Resource.axd?Id=93839A79-943E-4942-81B3-86461C0F2AAB

[7]photo:nestle-duns100-clip.jpg
(assume NIS = 0.2416 US$)
http://duns100.dundb.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=2009e/e59a1_sector&sec_name=Food,%20Beverages%20%26%20Tobacco&order=sales%20desc&duns=600073597
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[8][http://www.nestle.com/Resource.axd?Id=93839A79-943E-4942-81B3-86461C0F2AAB]

According to  Nestle's financial statement for 2009, it has the following holding in Israel:

Companies         City      % capital shareholdings   Currency  Capital
Nespresso Israel Ltd   Tel-Aviv    100%            ILS       1 000
OSEM Investments Ltd*   Shoham     53.8%            ILS   110 644 444
Nestlé R&D Centre     Sderot

% capital shareholding corresponds to voting powers

*Listed on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange, market capitalisation ILS 5.9 billion, quotation code (ISIN) IL0003040149
** assumes conversion rate 0.268528 ILS to USD, then Nestle's investment in Osem is worth over US $850 million (53.8% of 5.9 billion ILS)

[9] Osem Unit, Nestle Buy Foodtech for $20 Mln

"Israeli foodmaker Osem Investments, which is 53.8 percent owned by Swiss food giant Nestle, said on Thursday one of its units completed a deal to buy Foodtech International for $20 million.

Tivall, Osem's unit that makes vegetarian and meat substitute products, will pay $10.6 million for U.S. based Foodtech, also a maker of vegetarian food products. As part of the deal, Nestle will pay $9.4 million and will retain Foodtech's intellectual property rights. Tivall already sells in Israel and to Europe but Osem seeks to expand meat substitute product sales to North America."

http://www.flex-news-food.com/pages/21216/Israel/Nestle/osem-unit-nestle-buy-foodtech-$20-mln.html
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[10] Osem to buy Tribe Mediterranean for US$57 mln

Tribe has a 17 percent share of the Mediterranen chilled salad market in the United States.
http://www.flex-news-food.com/pages/18521/Israel/Nestle/israels-osem-buy-tribe-mediterranean-us$57-mln.html
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[11]NESTLE ISRAEL TO EXPORT ICE CREAM TO SWITZERLAND

Osem Investments subsidiary Nestle Israel announced that it would begin exports of its super premium ice cream bar ‘Nok Out’ to Switzerland. Sales are expected to reach $1 million in 2006. Nestle Israel’s ‘Nok Out’ range was chosen by Nestle Switzerland as the best out of similar products produced in other countries. Nestle Israel said that the products would be marketed under the brand “Heaven” and would be supported by advertising on Swiss television and other media channels.

Nestle Israel CEO Yehudi Lipman said, “The exports to Switzerland are a mark of appreciation of the high standards and quality maintained by our plant in Kiryat Malachi. Switzerland is the latest in a number of international markets, including the US, France, the UK, South Africa, and others, to which Nestle Israel exports its produce.”

ISRAEL TRADE COMMISSION, Commercial News from Israel September 2006
http://www.moit.gov.il/NR/exeres/137F260A-B23C-450C-9D5A-7926ED5D266E.htm
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[12]Osem UK buys Kosher food company Yarden

Food company Osem UK Limited bought Kosher food company Yarden G.B. Limited, which has been operating in England for two decades in the field of refrigerated, frozen and kosher food, for £1.9 million.

http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?CategoryID=397&ArticleID=10927
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[13] Nestle sells in Spain and buys in Israel
Ice Cream Reporter (February 20, 2003)

Nestle has sold its Avidesa ice cream plant in Spain.. The Avidesa plant is reported to be third in overall ice cream sales in Spain, with revenues of €165.77 million ($180 million) and net income of €8 million ($8.6 million) in 2001.

At the same time that it was selling the Avidesa plant, Nestle became more deeply involved in the ice cream market in Israel. It was announced that Osem Investments, in which Nestle holds a share of 50.1%, would buy the 47% stake in Noga Ice Creams currently held by the Tnuva dairy company for NIS38 million ($7.8 million).. Noga reportedly has been losing money for some time.. Israeli analysts note that Tnuva was ready to get out of the ice cream business..

The Jerusalem Post reports that Noga holds a 35% share of the Israeli ice cream market, second to Strauss, which holds a 55% share. Noga's annual ice cream sales amount to NIS185 million ($38 million). The total Israeli ice cream market is estimated at N15800 million ($165 million), down slightly from an estimated NIS1 billion ($206 million) two years ago.


http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Nestle+sells+in+Spain+and+buys+in+Israel.-a098079834
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[14] Osem gains total control of ailing Noga Ice Cream. (Ice Cream Scoops).(Osem Food Industries buys 49% share of Noga Ice Cream it didn't already have)(Brief Article)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-106700844.html
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Quick Frozen Foods International | July 1, 2003

Israel's Osem Food Industries bas acquired the 49% share of Noga Ice Cream that it didn't already control, evidently hoping that it can make a go of the operation that had been doing poorly while the Tnuva Cooperative still had a stake.

"Because Noga has always been a money loser, Tnuva bas been wanting to get out for a while," opined Ofer Livne, an analyst for Ilanot Securities.


[15] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1110410.html
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Osem has been manufacturing in Sderot since 1981. The company is the biggest employer in the entire area around Gaza Strip, with 480 workers. The plant makes 170 different products, including Bisli, Mana Hama instant foods (noodles, rice dishes and the like), instant soup powders, soup nuts, ketchup and sauces.

[16]Welcome To Najd, District of Gaza - Ethnically cleansed 22,549 days ago

http://netfinity2.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Najd/
photo:http://netfinity2.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Najd/Picture13269.html

[17]
Swiss-based Nestle S.A. has submitted a grant request to Israel's Ministry of Industry and Trade's Investment Center to establish a $5.6-million global research and development center for snack foods in Sderot. In Israel, companies that invest in national priority A areas like Sderot are entitled to a grant of 24% of their total investment. Nestle plans to invest $2.4 million in a 1,700-meter facility and $3.2 million in equipment. The research and development center would receive logistic support from Nestle's Osem factory in Sderot.

http://www.allbusiness.com/wholesale-trade/merchant-wholesalers-nondurable/122893-1.html
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[18]Khalidi, Walid, ed. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated By Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies: Washington, D.C., 1992

http://umkahlil.blogspot.com/2006/06/sderot-built-on-ashes-of-ethnically.html
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Sderot Built on Ashes of Ethnically Cleansed and Defaced Najd
June 21, 2006

Sderot was settled by Jews in 1951. According to Walid Khalidi in All That Remains, it along with the settlement of Or ha-Ner, founded in 1957, were established on the village lands of Najd, which means "elevated plain" in Arabic.

Najd's Palestinian villagers, approximately 620 in 1945, were expelled on 13 May 1948, before Israel was declared a state and before any Arab armies entered Palestine. According to UN Resolution 194 and also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13, Section 2, the villagers of Najd have a right to return home to their personal property and to their native village.

Today, according to Khalidi, "some old trees grow" on the site of the village. It is "overgrown with cactuses and Christ's thorn and sycamore trees and contans the crumbled walls of unidentified buildings...."

There were 82 houses in Najd. Children went to school in Simsim, two kilometers away. According to Palestine Remembered the village has been completely "defaced."

In 1596 Najd's population was 215.

In 1838, Edward Robinson, an American biblical scholar "observed the villagers winnowing barley by throwing it into the air against the wind with wooden forks" [Robinson (1841) III: 260 as quoted in Khalidi 128].

Najd's villagers were mainly farmers and engaged in animal husbandry. "Fields of grain and fruit trees surrounded Najd on all sides."

Najd is fourteen kilometers from Gaza. Palestinian Arabs own 12,669 dunums in Najd although Israel refuses to honor their rights to their personal property, and refuses them their inalienable right to return home. In 1945 Jews owned 495 dunums of land in Najd and public lands consisted of 412 dunums.

Najd is one of 418 ethnically cleansed villages by Zionist Jews that Dr. Khalidi includes in his seminal work. Khalidi dedicates his book:

To all those for whom these villages were home and to their descendants.

Khalidi, Walid, ed. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated By Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies: Washington, D.C., 1992.

[19]
http://www.yedid.co.il/whatwedo/crc/sderot.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20040228103256/http://www.yedid.co.il/whatwedo/crc/sderot.html
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Up until 1990, Sderot was home to approximately 10,000 residents, primarily of Mizrahi descent (communities from North Africa and the Arab countries). The massive wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990’s increased Sderot’s population to approximately 23,000, more than doubling the number of residents.. Approximately 70% of the immigrants who arrived in Sderot are from the eastern states of the FSU – primarily from the Caucuses and, to a lesser degree, Buchara.

Today, the level of unemployment and the number of residents receiving welfare in Sderot is sky high (actual statistics are deceiving, since residents receiving income compensations and the like are not officially counted as being unemployed). Most of those living and working in Sderot are unskilled laborers; those with a higher education and white collar professions tend to leave the town for nearby cities..


[20]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Sderot&itemNo=1158635
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Rocket-battered Sderot faces bankruptcy
 
By Yanir Yagna
Last Update: 24/03/2010 05:57

The mayor and city treasurer of the western Negev city of Sderot say their town is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy.

Treasurer Shimon Peretz says that the cumulative deficit of the municipality stands at NIS 28 million.

Mayor David Buskila and Peretz claim that the deficit is the result of the cessation in the flow of charitable donations to the municipality, which which ceased with the flow of thousands of Qassam rockets which rained down from nearby Gaza for years. The rockets have mostly stopped since Operation Cast Lead over a year ago.

Peretz warns that the collapse of the city will occur in the coming months "unless a miracle happens."

During the past decade, Sderot  benefited from donations to the tune of nearly NIS 25 million per year. Much of the aid came from Jewish communities throughout the world, organizations and large companies in Israel, and the Jewish Agency.

However, following Israel's Gaza offensive the assistance dropped dramatically and municipal officials cannot count on anything beyond five figures.

"The situation in the city was bad because of the Qassams," Peretz said. "For eight years every one contributed to the city ... They invested hundreds of millions of shekels. Now we can barely receive any assistance. We are on the verge of total collapse."


[21]http://www.osem.co.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=95&CategoryID=73&Page=1
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Cooperation between Nestlé and Osem has led to a knowledge transfer agreement in which Osem is entitled to receive assistance from Nestlé for product research and development, information systems and food technology. Furthermore, the two companies have embarked on an employee exchange so that Osem can benefit from the vast experience that the Nestlé managers have acquired over time. As a result of the above, a Nestlé representative was appointed Chairperson of the company’s Board of Directors.

When Nestlé bought into its partnership with Osem, it represented both a vote of confidence in the company’s managerial and operational capabilities and also an undertaking to help Osem to move towards new horizons which until this point in time had only been a dream.

The partnership with Nestlé set new standards of quality and excellence and instituted advanced work procedures which placed Osem not only at the forefront of the Israeli food industry but also at the forefront of food industry throughout the world.

Osem is now part of a successful international company. Now more than ever the company is obligated to long-term planning, to maintaining a clear budgetary framework, and to cultivate and develop the human resources. We are all obligated to meet the challenge in order to continue as an integral part of this world wide success. The connection with Nestlé, which has opened up wide-ranging commercial opportunities, was a phenomenal breakthrough for Osem. It has also afforded Osem increased knowledge in a variety of relevant areas such as advanced technologies, economics, management, finances, marketing and advertising. The beginning of a new era at Osem can be felt every day in every position, the work methods, management style, and the striving for business excellence, a concept that is engraved on the shared Osem- Nestlé flag.

We have listed below the developments that have occurred in Osem since its partnership with Nestlé:

1995
The beginning of the relationship with Nestlé;

Nestlé received the option of realizing 10% of Osem’s shares;

Osem begins importing top-quality Nestlé products into Israel;

Acquires 50% of Mili Ltd. and enters the frozen foods market;

Acquires 50% of Tivol Ltd. and merges Mili into Tivol;

The Ostive and Frostive distribution systems and combined;

Production of oil begins at the Sderot factory.
 
1996
Nestlé decides to realize the options it received and acquires 10% of Osem’s shares;
 
1997
A partnership with Tnuva is in place for the production and marketing of Nestlé ice cream under the Motte brand name;

Control of Sabrah Salads is acquired.
 
1998
Nestlé increases its holding in Osem to 47% and a knowledge agreement is signed allowing for the transfer of knowledge in product research and development, information systems and food technology.

Acquisition of 50% of the Beit Hashitah pickle factory;

Merger of Beit Hashitah and Assis (Osem-owned) industrial activities in canned goods, pickled vegetables, syrups and jellies;

Osem begins to market Friskies pet food products owned by Nestlé;

Hod Lavan Ltd. is acquired by Tivol, a company in the Osem Group, and its industrial activities are integrated into the Off Tov plant.
 
1999
Osem increases its share in Tivol to 51%;

Osem’s trading network is reorganized, the structure of the sales and distribution set-up is adapted to allow for greater differentiation between customers, and the Osem and Fromin distribution systems are united to form a single system;

The Ostive chilled goods distribution system is merged with the Frostive frozen goods distribution system to form one network under the Estive name;

Osem’s volume of sales reaches NIS 2 billion for the first time.
 
2000
Nestlé increases its holding in Osem to 50.1%.
 
2002
Nestlé launches its worldwide Snacks R&D Center built at the Osem facility in Sderot;

Osem Bnei Brak activities are merged into the Sderot factory.
 
2003
Full control of the Beit Hashitah factory is acquired;

Tnuva’s share of Nestlé Ice Creams is acquired;

The new modern distribution center at Ramat Hashofet is launched
 

[22]http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=1365
archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20030926050642/http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=1365
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'ECONOMY MORE THREATENING THAN ROCKETS'
2003-03-19

Sderot was founded in 1955, a small “development town” in the northern Negev, a kilometer or so from the Gaza Strip, then under Egyptian control. Having absorbed some 11,000 new immigrants over the last decade, the town’s population currently numbers just over 23,000.

It is somewhat surprising to find that security matters are usually not the first concern of the people of Sderot. “I’m more concerned over the economic situation,” says Eli Moyal, the mayor of Sderot..

Remond Dahan, another resident of Sderot’s northwesterly neighborhood, does not see the Qassam missiles as her biggest problem. Her main cause for concern are her two eldest daughters, both of them in their early twenties and both unemployed. “There are simply no jobs in Sderot and the girls both feel suffocated at home,” she says.

“The Qassam missiles are not the thing that will make us leave Sderot,” says Shimon Elmaliach, a local resident. He is much more concerned over radiation from a new cellular antenna which has been erected near his home. According to Elmaliach it is the cellular antenna, not the looming threat of rockets hitting their houses, which is most likely to bring local residents to take the law in to their own hands.

The Qassam rockets have certainly brought plenty of sympathy to Sderot. The management of the Hermon Mountain skiing resort, for example, has promised to send the Negev town 200 tons of snow. As for the people of Sderot – they worry about the threat of Qassams, but this is merely another item on the list of things to worry about, and often not the first.


[23] [http://www.israelvalley.com/news/2006/07/10/3021/nestle-israel-nestle-has-continued-to-gradually-increase-its-holdings-nestle-no-intention-of-capitulating-to-the-arab-boycott - orig src Ynet ]
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272747,00.html
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Nestle first invested in Osem in the early 1990s, acquiring options for 10% of the company. In 1998, Nestle increased its stake in Osem to 47%, and signed a products know-how, technology and R&D sharing agreement. Under this agreement, Nestle opened an R&D center in Israel. In 2000, Nestle increased its stake in Osem to 50.1% under a joint management agreement that included the positions of Israelis Dan Propper as CEO and Gazi Kaplan as chairman. Nestle has continued to gradually increase its holdings in Israel and as of July 2006, Nestle owns 53% stake in Osem Investments Ltd.

On  July 4th 2006 the Arab League boycott office, based in Syria, threatened to boycott Nestle, unless the company liquidated its activity in Israel, including its 53% stake in Osem Investments Ltd. In response, Nestle issued its own press release the next day on July 5, saying that it had no intention of capitulating to the Arab boycott.


[24]http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?CategoryID=397&ArticleID=10736
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Nestle to Produce New Breakfast Cereal in Sderot

"Cereal is inflated into the shape of a cylinder and filled with nougat. The development of the new patented technology began at Nestle's R&D center in Sderot seven years ago after a request from Israeli soldiers, who liked to combine the flavors of Bamba, a peanut based snack, with chocolate paste. Bamba Nougat was launched in Israel in a limited edition as a marketing campaign, but became a hit."

[25]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3725743,00.html
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Nestle producing new breakfast cereal in Sderot

The new cereal will be named Crunch Rolls Nougat and is composed of cylindrical-shaped cereal filled with nougat.
 
The development of the technology began at Nestle's research and development center in Sderot some seven years ago.
 
The technology, that is registered as a global patent, allows for the first time ever, the inflation of a corn or cereal product in the shape of a cylinder with open sides, through which the filling can be seen.
 
Up until now, Nestle has not produced any food products in Israel, and its products are imported to Israel by Osem.
 
It seems that the sweeping success of Bamba Nougat has prompted Nestle, one of the world's leading breakfast cereal producers, to implement the new technology in its products as well.
 
Osem's nougat-filled Bamba was born at the request of soldiers who would eat Bamba with chocolate paste. The project was initially launched in a limited edition as a marketing campaign, but quickly became a hit.
 
In the first stages, the new cereal will be sold in Israel and was expected to be on shelves this week. The company also plans to market the new product around the world.

[26]Israel Newsletter.com, Zack Miller, June 24, 2008
http://israelnewsletter.com/2008/06/24/exporting-ingenuity-israeli-mobile-tech-software-andfood/
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“Snack foods developed and first produced at the Osem development center in Sderot will be included in Nestle’s products worldwide,” Nestle executive VP and CTO Werner Bauer told Globes yesterday.  Of the 23 global development centers Neste maintains globally, Osem’s Sderot center focuses on snack foods, like kid-favorites Bamba and Bisli..

Bauer cited the proximity of Osem’s manufacturing facility to its development facility in Sderot as one of the reasons why Osem is becoming a global training center for Nestle staff.


[27]Swiss Embassy - Economic Relations with Israel
2006-03-10
http://www.eda.admin.ch/telaviv_emb/e/home/comeco/econo.html
(archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20060310093235/http://www.eda.admin.ch/telaviv_emb/e/home/comeco/econo.html)
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Especially since the beginning of the years 1990 (end of the Arab boycott), of the significant investments of Swiss companies were carried out in particular in the food sector (Nestlé-Osem), pharmaceutical (Ares-Serono, Roche, Novartis), of the machines (Schindler, G Fischer) and of the services (banks: UBS, Union Bancaire Privée; insurance: Swiss Re). The Swiss investments exceed certainly 500 Mio francs.


[28]Treasury: Swiss companies plan to expand investments here
By Tal Muscal, The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/24/Digital/Digital.42264.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20020814075324/http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/24/Digital/Digital.42264.html
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Swiss companies plan to expand their investments in Israel, following the signing of a convention preventing double taxation between Israel and Switzerland on Tuesday, the Finance Ministry said yesterday.. Nestle is expected to set up a research and design center in Sderot, which will serve as the Swiss food giant's global center for salty snacks. Nestle's investment in the Sderot center is expected to reach several million dollars.

The convention preventing double taxation encompasses all types of direct taxes, including capital gains tax. Foreign investors, however, will not be party to this agreement, as is accepted in other Western countries that enter into such conventions. The Treasury said Swiss investors would be exempt from paying capital gains tax in Israel once a such a tax is in place. Under the agreement, the full tax exemption will not only apply to investments, but also to most bilateral trade. Other profits and revenues will receive low tax rates, including a 5% tax on royalties and dividends. Taxes on profits from interest will vary from 0% to 10%.


[29] http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?CategoryID=397&ArticleID=11624
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http://www.flex-news-food.com/pages/19071/Israel/Nestle/nestle-israels-osem-deal-buy-materna-stake.html
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2010 - Nestle buys 51% stake in Israeli babyfood company Materna Laboratories for $72 million.

Nestle, through its subsidiary in Israel (Osem), closed a deal with Materna Laboratories, the babyfood unit of Maabarot Products Ltd. (an Israeli publicly traded company), to acquire 51% of the unit for $72 million and establish a long term strategic partnership. Materna is Israel's leading infant nutrition player with more than 60% market share.


[30] Peres in Sderot
24 Dec 2008
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1049772.html
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"I thank Osem for investing in Sderot," he said. "I thank you for your determination, your courage and your contribution to Israel's industry and our resilience." Peres also said that Osem CEO Dan Proper promised him that Osem will not fire a single employee in the western Negev, despite the global credit crunch.

[31] photo: Peres at Osem factory Sderot (24 Dec 2008)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3644020,00.html

[32]Sderot Food Festival Attracts Hundreds
Anav Silverman, 23 Oct 2008
http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=169&q=3
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Osem, the Israeli food giant, working closely with the Sderot municipality, organized the festival in order to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Israel’s independence..

An especially interesting feature of the festival was that people took guided tours around Sderot’s huge Osem factory, where they could see how popular Israeli snacks like Bisli are made, and also the “shkedim”, or soup nuts, come into being. Everybody who toured the factory was invited to draw something on the huge mural wall that Osem is preparing to give to the residents of Sderot.

[33] http://www.osem.co.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=1&CategoryID=15
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The Giv’ol plant . . . where Bamba goes big time
 
Although the Givol Plant, located in the industrial area of Holon, is one of Osem’s smaller facilities, it is home to an Osem flagship item one of its oldest and most popular products–Bamba.

Bamba started out in the Israeli army canteen service and in the 1967 Six Day War. The soldiers welcomed this snack enthusiastically and took it home with them at the end of the war. From this point on, Bamba became a snack for the whole family.


[34] Jubilee Awards

According to the Virtual Israel website on October 14, 1998, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu presented a select group of international business people with the highest tribute ever awarded by the "State of Israel". The Jubilee Award, marking Israel’s fiftieth year of independence, recognizes those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy.

The award list:

..
Mr. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Nestle S.A.
..

Source: http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-jubilee-awards.html

[35]  Peter Brabeck, CEO of Nestle, appeared in the 2005 documentary "We Feed The World", in an interview at the end of the film he said that the idea of water as a basic human right was "extreme" and that he believed water should have value like any foodstuff

We Feed The World, documentary 2005. See relevant clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyAzxmN2s0w


[36] http://www.osem.co.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=4&CategoryID=15
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The Nestlé R&D Center in Sderot . . . High-Tech Snacks

The new Nestlé Research and Development Center in Sderot opened its gates on June 4th 2002, officially joining the extended family of this huge corporation.

Nestlé’s management decided to set up their R&D Center in Israel and to focus on the development of new snacks with high nutritional value. This strategic move that allows Nestlé to expand its activities into the savory snacks category will also strengthen Osem’s control of this important category in the Israeli market.

The modern development center is home to the best food engineers and food technologist who are laying the foundations for the development of the Nestlé and Osem products of the future in the dynamic world of snacks. A modern production hall has been set up at this center, which simulates the activities of the most advanced snack production lines of their kind. A sophisticated and very well equipped laboratory also operates in the development center.

The heart of the center is the pilot project production floor, which is in a very spacious and squeaky-clean hall where newly developed products undergo trials. Laboratories stocked with the latest top-of-the-line equipment used in research and development surround the pilot plant production floor.

So the snacks that will be eaten in New York, Warsaw, Manila, or Capetown in one, two or even five years time, will be those same snacks developed by the food engineers working in Nestlé’s world-wide R&D Center for Snacks.

[37]Osem and Yarden merge
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/osem-and-yarden-merge
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[38]
Name   The Golan Heights Winery Ltd.
Address  P.O. Box 183, 12900 Katzrin, Israel
Place   Katzrin- high up on the Golan Heights
Lables  Yarden, Gamla, Golan
Share   18% of domestic market; 38% of Israeli wines exported.

http://www.golanwines.co.il/general_eng.asp
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[39] http://www.yardengb.ltd.uk/
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[40] http://www.bus-exdigital.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=285:nestles-osem-buys-yarden-gb&catid=34:Business%20News
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Nestlé’s Osem buys Yarden GB
Monday, 03 August 2009 07:34

Israeli food maker Osem Investments has announced it is to buy UK food distributor Yarden GB for £1.9 million.

Osem, which is Israel’s biggest maker of instant soups and salads, will buy Essex-based Yarden, a leading distributor of kosher food, as part of its strategy to expand its footprint into the UK and overseas.

The company will pay an additional sum for Yarden’s inventory.

Osem is 54 per cent owned by Swiss firm Nestlé, the world’s largest food company.

The firm has recently been pursuing expansion into the US. In 2008 it purchased salad maker Tribe Mediterranean Foods for $57 million and early this year it bought meat substitute manufacturer FoodTech for $10 million.

Yarden, whose revenue in 2008 totalled £7 million, counts retail giants Tesco and J Sainsbury amongst its customers.

Yarden will be integrated in Osem UK, Osem said in a statement.

نستله  يك شركت اسرائيلي است.(نستله  باني گلوله‌هاي اسرائيل)

نستله  يك كمپاني تغذيه‌اي بين‌المللي است كه در سال 1866 ميلادي در سوئيس تاسيس شده و اكنون در 100 كشور جهان (از جمله ايران و اسرائيل) 350 كارخانه دارد.
نستله  ايران در تاريخ 9 اسفند 73  (28 فوريه 1995) نزد اداره ثبت شركتها و موسسات غير تجاري به ثبت رسيد و در تاريخ 9/9/2001 موفق به اخذ مجوز هيئت وزيران شد و سرمايه گذاري 000/500/42 دلاري آن در دو مرحله زير انجام پذيرفت.
1. خريد امكانات توليدي موجود از يك شركت داخلي
2. توليد شير خشك مخصوص شيرخواران به عنوان يك پروژه جديد
شركت نستله  ايران نماينده فروش انحصاري نستله  سوئيس ( اس – آ) و ادارات فروش و توزيع محصولات نستله  را نيز بر عهده دارد.  نستله  سوئيس مالك اعظم سهام نستله  ايران بوده و مديريت اين شركت را نيز برعهده داشته و همچنين تعيين كننده بازارهاي هدف و ميزان صادرات براي نستله  ايران مي باشد. تيم نستله  ايران متشكل از 180 نفر پرسنل حرفه‌‌اي آموزش ديده است. امور مشتريان نستله   با 5000 نفر از خانم هاي ايراني ارتباط نزديك داشته و به آن‌ها آموزش مي‌دهد. همچنين اين شركت از 10 ماشين تبليغاتي براي توزيع و تبليغ محصولات خود  استفاده مي‌كند.
محصولات شركت نستله  درايران نسكافه،‌كافي ميت، ‌شير خشك بچه‌، سرلاك و مگي مي‌باشد. كه دراين ميان مگي به سفارش نستله  ايران در شركت نستله  تركيه توليد مي شود.
(پير تروبا رئيس شعبه ايران مي‌باشد كه مطالب بالا را در تاريخ 27/12/84 در مصاحبه با ايرنا بيان كرده است.)
 مدير بخش آسيا، آفريقا و اقيانوسيه نستله  از 2005 آقاي Van Dijk مي‌باشد و آقاي Carlo Donani هم جانشين اوست.
مسأله مهم ارتباط نستله  با رژیم صهیونیستی است كه در زير به آن پرداخته خواهد شد.

شركت نستله  (سوئيس) مالك 1/50% سرمايه‌گذاري تغذيه اسرائيل است.
درسال 2000 اين شركت ميليون‌ها دلار را براي راه اندازي مركز Ranad در فلسطین اشغالی سرمايه‌گذاري كرد. در 1998 پيتر برابك نماينده نستله  جايزه صهیونیستی جوبيلي را از دست بنيامين نتانياهو دريافت كرد. اين بزرگترين كمك مالي است كه رژیم صهیونیستی به شركت‌ها و شخصيت‌هاي حامي خود اختصاص داده است. شركت‌هايي كه در فلسطین اشغالی بيشترين سرمايه‌گذاري و روابط اقتصادي را با رژيم داشته باشند.
نستله  سرمايه‌گذاري در سرزمین‌های اشغالی را با خريد 10%‌ از سهام شركت تغذيه اسرائيل (Osem) آغاز كرد.
دو سال بعد اين سهم مالكيت را به 1/50% افزايش داد. در ژانويه 2002 طي قرادادي، مشمول معافيت مالياتي دولت غاصب اسرائيل قرار گرفت.
شركت اصلي نستله  اكنون درسرزمین‌های اشغالی در شهرك سديروت است. شهركي كه در شمال غزه ساخته شده است و اكنون مسكن 23000 نفر يهودي از كشورهاي مغرب، ‌اتيوبي و كشورهاي شوروي سابق است. نيمي از آن‌ها ظرف 10 سال اخير به اين منطقه مهاجرت كرده اند. نستله  در شهرك سديروت شركتي به مساحت 700 مترمربع احداث كرده و قرار است مركز تحقيقاتي با زيربناي 1700 مترمربع در همانجا تاسيس نمايد. نستله  در سال 2000 ،‌ 20 ميليون دلار به صندوق غرامت هولوكاست واريز كرده است. اين شركت همچنين 24% از كمك سالانه 6/5 ميليون دلاري رژيم صهيونيستي به شركت‌هاي اقتصادي را دريافت مي‌كند.( پاداش خوش خدمتي)
به طور كلي اين شركت در مناطق اشغالی 4000 پرسنل داشته و در مناطق مختلف اسرائیل 11 شعبه دارد كه همگي در مناطق اشغال شده قرار دارد.
كمك به انتقال مهاجران يهودي به اسرائيل از ديگر كمك‌هاي نستله  به اسرائيل است. نكته قابل توجه اين است كه تنها مسلمانان نيستند كه نستله  را بايكوت كرده اند بلكه UNSION بزرگترين اتحاديه انگلستان و يك گروه مسيحي به نام Christian Aid كالاهاي شركت نستله  را به خاطر جنايات اسرائيل، تحريم كرده‌اند.

ماركها و محصولات نستله  در جهان:
Nescafe, Tasteres Choice, Hills Bros, Cerealac, Nido, Fitness & Fruit,
Appleminis, Cheerios, Chocapic Cornflakes (in some countries), Shreddies,
Golden Grahams, Trix, Perrier, Poland Spring, Deer Park, Calistoga,
Sohat, Vittel, Pure Life, Carnation, Libby's, Nesquik, Maggi, Buitoni ,
Milkybar, KitKat, Quality Street, Smarties, Oreos, After Eight, Lion,
Aero, Polo, Toll House Morsels, Crunch, L'Oreal, Alcon Eyecare, Goobers,
Mint Royal, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Rowntree, Rolo, Del Monte Real Fruit Bar,
Minute Maid, Petit Gervals, Contadina, Alpo, Purina, Tidy Cats, Meow Mix,
Mighty Dog, Friskies, Felix, Stouffers

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پاتک استراتژیک
بیانات مقام معظم رهبری (دامت برکاته) در ضرورت آسیب شناسی انقلاب اسلام
گزارش شوراي هماهنگي كشوري مبارزه با پولي شدن دانشگاه هاي دولتي
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افتتاحیه نوزدهمین نشست جنبش عدالتخواه دانشجویی با سخنرانی حسن رحیمپور
كلاس هاي معارف دانشگاه ها منجر به رفتار ديني نمي شود
جان و جانان: امام زمان(عج) از نگاه مقام معظم رهبرى
امام زمان (عج) از نگاه امام خمينى (ره)
انقلاب همه چیز را عوض کرد...
ديپلماسي به روايت امام
نستله باني گلوله‌هاي اسرائيل
بازخواني تنها برنامه اولين سالگرد سوم تير در سال 85
صهيونيزم و هيتلريزم
شعری برای کارگر
دستور العمل قرآني جذب نيرو در يك تشكل دانشجويي
بسيجي خوب بسيجي مرده است!
بسيجي قطره چكان بسيجي ماشه چكان
فاضلاب اسرائیل در روستاهاي فلسطين
آقای جلیلی چمران را بردند!
هویت گم شده میدان انقلاب
نامه اتحاديه بين‌المللي امت واحده خطاب به اتحاديه جهاني علماي اسلامي
لیستی که هنوز اعلام عمومی نشده است
پاتک استراتژیک
چهل توشه اخلاقی از بیانات رهبر معظم انقلاب
حکومتی که حسین(ع) به دنبال آن بود
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پر کن دوباره کیل مرا ایهاالعزیز
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