Israeli Revenue Management firm, ECTel (Nasdaq: ECTX), unveiled 4 new products last week at a global meeting.

Reported in the press release:

The launched products expand ECtel’s IRM(TM) platform by offering additional capabilities to better manage the communication service providers’ revenues and expenses. These included real-time credit and risk monitoring (RiskView(TM)), quality of services business impact analysis (ImpactView(TM)) , roaming assurance (RoamView(TM)) and business intelligence tools (BusinessView(TM)) for enhancing profitability and scoring.

These new products, together with ECtel flagship fraud management (FraudView(R)) and revenue assurance (RAP) products, assist telecom operators to reduce their financial risk while driving increased customers satisfaction and revenues. This products’ launch correlates with ECtel’s vision allowing its community members to maximize financial performance, profit and customer satisfaction, by addressing all assurance aspects.

See our previous analysis on the small firm here.

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With more publicly traded Israeli companies on the US exchanges than any other country except the US itself, many investors are searching today for ways to profit from this growing market. Looking around at the products used on a daily basis, one will find embedded in them key Israeli intellectual property. From voice mail to instant messaging to the firewall that sits on computers, the technological revolution of the past decades is, and continues to be, powered by Israeli technology.

The Israel Opportunity Investor (www.israelnewsletter.com), dedicated to providing in-depth research on Israeli stocks that trade on US exchanges, is now launching a monthly newsletter. This newsletter was introduced as a result of the company’s existing highly acclaimed blog, to provide investors an opportunity to profit from the entrepreneurship, ingenuity, and growth potential of the Israeli economy.

“For years, large multi-nationals like Microsoft, Oracle, Johnson and Johnson have invested billions of dollars in Israeli companies,” said IOI Managing Director and Senior Editor Zack Miller. “With our expertise we are able to uncover tomorrow’s innovators while they are still flying under Wall Street’s radar screen.”

IOI’s new service will include monthly issues of the “Israel Opportunity Investor”, timely trading ideas and stock analysis, special reports, interviews with leading Israeli Venture Capitalists and senior management of publicly traded companies– giving subscribers access to some of the best Israeli ideas around.

“With more companies listed on NASDAQ than any other country except for the United States, Israel is the focus of more and more investor attention,” said IOI Managing Director Aaron Katsman. “There are hundreds of U.S. publicly-traded Israeli companies that are little known. With a local Israeli presence, IOI has access to the senior management of these companies, enabling us to discover the enterprises with the highest growth potential, and provide this information to the investing public.”

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BigBand (Nasdaq: BBND) lands a deal with Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR) for its switched digital video solution. Charter is the fifth operator to initiate commercial deployments of BigBand’s SDV solution. The five largest cable operators in the U.S. have now selected BigBand’s SDV. Check out our recent coverage of BigBand.

Motty Zisser, Elbit Medical’s (Nasdaq: EMITF) head, is already mulling expanding the Budapest Arena Center. The 66,000-square meter mall is Hungary’s largest mall and is fully occupied. The center was sold in August and it looks like Elbit Medical may see a gain of 1 billion NIS on the sale.  See our coverage of Elbit Medical’s strategy here.

Merrill Lynch upgrades Israel cellular provider, Cellcom (NYSE: CEL).  The bank said, “Despite the share price rallying 17% in the past month, we see two reasons to recommend purchase. First, we find a prospective 7.6% dividend yield compelling and, second, we see scope for additional cash returns with current net debt only 1.3 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) and well below management comfort levels of 2.5 times.”

Israel theft-prevention firm, Ituran (NYSE: ITRN), whiffs on earnings by $.03.

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Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT) announced that its subsidiary, Spacenet, is working with Verizon (VZ) Business to deploy a custom satellite network for the US Postal Service.

…and here come the lawsuits against BigBand (BBND). BigBand had a disastrous quarter and the stock plunged over 30% in one trading day. The provider of the de facto network architecture for digital simulcast, an application that facilitates the insertion of advertising and the transmission of video in a digital format while still providing service to analog customers, blamed a variety of factors on its revenue shortfall, including increased software customization and integration, a slowdown in Telco-TV revenues, and softness in its data business. Read the press release here. IsraelNewsletter has also written recently about what we thought was going on at BigBand.

Teva (TEVA) gets FDA approval for generic Valtrex, a version of GlaxoSmitKline PLC’s herpes drug. Valtrex sold about $1.3 billion last year.

Lots of interesting stuff going on at IsraelNewsletter pick, G-Willi Foods (WILC). Read what analyst Aaron Katsman has been saying on recent M&A activity. Look for IsraelNewsletter to clear up some of the confusion surrounding the deal later this week.

Alon USA Energy (ALJ) reported minor snags at its 70k barrel/day Big Spring, TX refinery, but with no effect on production.

After gaining more than 200% in the past six months and 500% in the last 12, Ceragon Networks (CRNT) is downgraded by Collins Stewart. Read the Globes story.

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