Informing
Policy
for Progress

On wings of carbon

Israel Aerospace Industries is engaged in high-tech manufacturing for the F-35 fighter jet project.

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

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.

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.