Informing
Policy
for Progress

the great money mystery

An interview with Arie Rotenberg – why the mountain of money created by Central Banks, In Israel and abroad , has not caused inflation?!

The business of sleep

An interview with Prof. Peretz Lavie, outgoing president of the Technion about his sleep research and resulting start-ups.

Rafi Nave: Hi-tech pioneer

Professor Shlomo Meital interviews Rafi Nave, a high-tech pioneer and researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion, regarding his career that has been going on for more than 40 years

Polity without policy

What happen in democracies, when we the voters, the polity, cast our ballots without any clue about what those we are voting for plan to do? What if those we vote for have no idea themselves what they plan to do? And why are Israel and Western democracies in this pickle?

Polity without policy

What happen in democracies, when we the voters, the polity, cast our ballots without any clue about what those we are voting for plan to do? What if those we vote for have no idea themselves what they plan to do? And why are Israel and Western democracies in this pickle?

America’s decline – Israel’s trouble

President Trump says the US economy is stronger than it has ever been. And the numbers back him up. Numbers, shmumbers – America is sink­ing. One consequence is that Israel is in trouble.

Snow-capped idea volcanoes

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder said “Young people are just smarter!” So, Mark, here goes. I’m going to try to convince you that those over 60 not only have clever ideas but often know far better than young whippersnappers how to implement them.

To succeed in a start-up, you have to think like artists

Is Israel really the start-up nation? If you choose the right metric, the answer is no. Israel is indeed the world leader in the number of start-ups per capita, according to the Bloomberg Index – but is this the right measure? Isn’t it more correct to check the number of successful start-ups per capita? If we measure this index, we will find that Israel is not at all leading. The rate of failures in the US, for example, is 90%; Sounds a lot, but it’s much less than Israel.