Informing
Policy
for Progress

Before You Launch: An Exhaustive Protocol for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Business meeting in the office

Many believe that high risk is innate and inherent in entrepreneurship – ‘baked in the cake’. In this study, we argue that the failure rate can be significantly reduced by the intelligent use of a pre-launch protocol — a list of sixty-four “$64 questions”, that ask startup entrepreneurs to consider in advance the challenges and pitfalls they may face in future – in order to anticipate and prepare.

Assessment of the environmental conditions within the Arab community

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The purpose of this review of the environmental status within Arab authorities is to identify success stories, key challenges, and opportunities for change in the environmental landscape of the Arab community, particularly in the areas of sustainable development and environmental infrastructure.

Food Security 2050 – Economic-Environmental Assessment

Plants on vertical farms grow with led lights. Vertical farming is sustainable agriculture for future food.

The report analyzes these three central challenges in shaping food security in Israel and the interdependence among them. Thus, the reliance of processing methods on resource management, focusing on the availability and quality of land and water by 2050; the impact of land and water availability, that depend on climate change, on the quantity and quality of food, and especially the production of animal feed and protein; and lastly, the impact of the shift in dietary preferences and demand for various food types on local production volume, resource management, processing methods, and the feasibility to establish food security in Israel.