Microsoft, Israeli firm sign deal

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MSN Israel is scheduled to start up this month. It will offer most MSN features such as Hotmail, instant messaging, news, Internet search engines, business services, and e-commerce services — all in Hebrew.

At the end of the third quarter Internet Gold reported 158,370 home subscribers and 1,227 business subscribers.