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NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS [Abstract] |
Non-controlling interests share in income (loss) [Table Text Block] | The composition of the net loss attributable to non-controlling interests (“NCI”) is as follows:
|  | Year ended December 31,
|  | 2010 |  | 2011 |  | 2012
Net (income) attributable to NCI in DSIT |  | $ | (181 | ) |  | $ | (22 | ) |  | $ | (84 | )
Net loss attributable to NCI in USSI |  | 776 |  |  | 571 |  |  | 1,108 |
Net loss attributable to NCI |  | $ | 595 |  |  | $ | 549 |  |  | $ | 1,024 |

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