Community and Support Centers for Former Haredim – founded by Yotzim Le’Shinuy (‘Out-for-Change’) Association.
The goal of the study is to evaluate two Community and Support Centers for Former Haredim (one in Jerusalem, one in Tel Aviv) – founded by Yotzim Le’Shinuy (‘Out-for-Change’) Association. The study reviews the theory and working assumptions of the centers; characterizes the participants in the program in socio-economic aspects and quality of life indicators; […]
Research Approaches to the Assessment of National-Social Resilience during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Time for Critical Examination
In April 2022, the Samuel Neaman Institute held a roundtable focusing on critical examination of research regarding resilience aspects during the Covid-19 pandemic period. The goal of the roundtable was to discuss the challenges, failures and advantages of using data and to develop models based on statistical methods in managing epidemics and making information accessible […]
Benford’s Law: A survey of its varied applications
Benford’s Law, or Newcomb-Benford Law, states that in many data sets, the leading digits (1’s, 2’s, etc.) will be much more frequent – 30% will be 1’s, for instance. This law has been widely used in many applications, including detection of fraud and data manipulation. This paper surveys some of the more interesting papers, and […]
Leadership and Academic Management in Higher Education – Universities: Exemplary Dean Leadership: A case study analysis
In August 2021, the Samuel Neaman Institute released the report “Leadership and Management in Higher Education Institutions:A Literature Review and In-Depth Interviews with Officials. “The aim of this first study was to investigate the current state of leadership and management within the academic context in Israel and to identify potential strategies for improving and strengthening […]
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Registry in Israel – Accounting and Reporting Protocol
The Israeli GHG registry was designed by collaborate team from the environmental protection ministry, The Samuel Neaman Institute and Ecotraders Ltd with a wide team of stake holders. The goal of the team was to develop a protocol with clear instructions that will guide organizations and companies from all sectors through the process of accounting […]
Indicators for Benevolent Community
This report is the third part [following the report “Characterizing the term ‘Benevolent community’“and “Best Practices (and/or Intervention Programs) for Benevolent Community”]. in the project “Benevolent Community – for Social Mobility, Community Resilience, and Quality of Life – in the 21st Century”. The project is a joint venture of the (Israel) Joint-Ashalim, the Community Resources […]
Best Practices (and/or Intervention Programs) for Benevolent Community
This report is the third part (following the report “Characterizing the term ‘Benevolent community’ “ and ‘Indicators of Benevolent Community’) in the project “Benevolent Community – for Social Mobility, Community Resilience, and Quality of Life – in the 21st Century”. The project is a joint venture of the (Israel) Joint-Ashalim, the Community Resources Division in […]
Characterizing the term ‘Benevolent community’
This report is the first part – and a central component – in the project “Benevolent Community – for Social Mobility, Community Resilience, and Quality of Life – in the 21st Century”. The project is a joint venture of the (Israel) Joint-Ashalim, the Community Resources Division in the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs, and […]
“Common Ground”: Agreed Road Map for Long-Term National Paradigms
Strategic thinking process for the state of Israel is presented. Based on interviews of 40 prominent Israelis, from diverse walks of life, we find a wide common ground in considering the ‘Declaration of Independence’ (1948) to be Israel’s vision for the coming decades. To validate our proposition that the vision chapter of the Declaration of […]
Evidence based risk management: a review of risk management models and methods
Risk management provides a basis for decision making both at the strategic an tactical level. The dramatic advances in data collection capabilities enhanced the risk management activities from qualitative to quantitative analysis. Domain expert assessments, using anchored scales such as a 1-5 Likert scale is still widely used. The objective of this review is to […]
