Bank Of Israel Says Growth Slowed to 3% in Second Half of 2011

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli economic growth slowed in the second half of 2011 to 3 percent from 4 percent in the first six months of the year, the Bank of Israel said today in an e- mailed statement.

--Editor: Digby Lidstone.

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