On wings of carbon
Israel Aerospace Industries is engaged in high-tech manufacturing for the F-35 fighter jet project.
Ultra-Orthodox: Burden to society or have the potential to launch us forward?
The politicians have forgotten the ultra-Orthodox issue at the election platforms, but if a serious effort will not be made to integrate them into society, we will reach a majority of ultra-Orthodox in the country that will be poor and mainly unproductive. How can we change that?
The pensions time bomb
In less than a decade, payments from the old-age benefits fund will exceed income, and by 2042 or earlier, the whole fund will be gone. Despite 20 years of legislation and reforms, the penion crisis has become worse.
Xin Chào, Vietnam!
Vietnamese want to learn the Israeli ‘secret sauce’ of technology-intensive entrepreneurship
Is it possible to find an optimal middle ground between excessive democracy and the proposed governance law?
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Shocks, sheikhs and shale
The price of oil peaked at $145 a barrel in July 2008 and is now below $50. The cause: Saudi oil sheikhs refuse to slash production to stabilize prices, while American shale production soars.
Tel Aviv white elephant
The ‘New’ Central Bus Station languishes in semi-neglect, a strange, partly unseen, humming underworld of activity.
Oil price reductions should not make us too complacent
OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, decided last week not to reduce oil production. This means, in a world of supply and demand, falling prices. Why such decision was made?
Israel, by the numbers
According to the statistics, Israel is quite well off, fairly cheerful, healthy, and great place to live and raise children.
Not to lower the price of electricity
In an era of oppressive living cost, in an era of social protest and a call from the middle class to reduce prices, Prof. Ayalon suggests and explains why a reduction in the price of electricity is a wrong decision.
