News From 2014

Prof. Ofira Ayalon participated in the radio broadcast “Good Morning Israel – Galatz” on the subject of diminishing raw materials

Orit Hazzan was interviewed in the program Making Order with Ben Caspit.

To watch the interview click here.

Prof. Ofira Ayalon and Dr. Tzipi Eshet presented their research on food losses in the agricultural sector during the  International Food Day in the Knesset. The study is conducted at Samuel Neaman Institute and the University of Haifa in collaboration with Leket Israel.

On Saturday, 8.11.2014,  the TV program "The Globe" on channel 1 (Oren Nahari and David Witzthum) dealt with the phenomena of  generation Y.

Dr. Tamar Almog, who is about to complete a comprehensive study on the Israeli generation Y together with Prof. Oz Almog, was the guest in the program.

The research is sponsored by the Samuel Neaman Institute. 

Dr. Reuven Gal discussed issues related to the motivation of Israeli youth to serve in the IDF and its fluctuations over the years.

Prof. Ofira Ayalon participated in Micahel Miro’s broadcast on Reshet Bet, “On the Road to Nature”, on the subject of Carbon Tax – taxation on greenhouse gases emissions in the energy sector

To hear the radio program and read the transcript in Hebrew, click here.

"65 hazardous sabstances events in the last two years in the Haifa bay is too many". This is what was said by the chairman of the subcommittee for the issues of environment and the Haifa bay development, Knesset member Dov Hanin, at a hearing held today (Thursday) at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion in which he introduced the troubling data which the committee found and stated that "We must not accept this reality".

To read an article about the committee (in Hebrew), click here.

100 shades of Green is a new initiative by Maariv, which rated the most influential "green" people and organizations in Israel. Prof. Ofira Ayalon, head of environment cluster at SNI and a professor at Haifa University, was elected. Prof. Ayalon is a co-author of reports for the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Infrastructure and other government agencies, and has published many articles in the popular and professional media.

Dr. Reuven Gal participated in the discussion of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee on the subject of providing access to higher education for the Ultra-Orthodox sector featured by Prof. Trachtenberg.