The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133; also known as the CIA World Factbook) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office. Other companies—such as Skyhorse Publishing—also print a paper edition. The Factbook is available in the form of a website, which is partially updated every week. It is also available for download for use off-line. It provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of each of 267 international entities including U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world.

The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. Government officials, and its style, format, coverage, and content are primarily designed to meet their requirements. However, it is frequently used as a resource for academic research papers and news articles. As a work of the U.S. Government, it is in the public domain in the United States (from wikipedia).

  1. Link to CIA world factbook
  2. Profile of ISRAEL at CIA factbook

 

From Wikipedia:

Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.[1] The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other “open” movements such as open source, open hardware, open content, and open access. The philosophy behind open data has been long established (for example in the Mertonian tradition of science), but the term “open data” itself is recent, gaining popularity with the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web and, especially, with the launch of open-data government initiatives such as Data.gov and Data.gov.uk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data

Open Data resources:

https://www.quandl.com/

https://www.quandl.com/browse

https://www.quandl.com/tools/api

https://www.quandl.com/collections

No

Name

URL

Description

1

Allmarketing

Israel Marketing portal

2

Effie

Marketing competition arena

3

Yellow Pages

All competitors near your area and services supplied by them

4

Globes

The marker

BizPortal

http://www.globes.co.il/

http://finance.themarker.com/

http://www.bizportal.co.il/

Financial portal with information about companies

5

Central Bureau of Statistics

Profiles, demographic info and many other statistics measurements

6

NationMaster

NationMaster is where stats come alive! We are a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations.

7

BGU University Library

BGU Library

8

Social Security

Israel Social Security and information with publication about every city.

9

Maala

Social Responsibility by sector and companies

10

Ministry of Economy

Wide variety of data

11

Nielsen

study consumers in more than 100 countries, with the most complete view of trends and habits worldwide

12

Google Scholar

Researches at any field

13

Google Trends

Analyze Word wide trends overtime at any field