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July 2021

COVID led schools the wrong way – here’s how we fix it

Shlomo Maital

There is a critical skills gap emerging, between the skills that industry wants and needs when hiring workers and the skills that potential employees have acquired in school.

Link to the full article in the JP

July 2021

The digital twin and condition based maintenance

A series of three blogs emphasizing the role of digital twins in providing monitoring diagnostic and prognostic capabilities, with examples from condition based maintenance.

July 2021

Iron Dome: The inside story

Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital reviews the inside story of the iron dome project and the man behind it, by the person who headed the project at RAFAEL: Chanoch Levin.

Link to the full article in the JP

July 2021

How Israel conquered coronavirus

Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital brings us the story of how Israel conquered COVID-19 and transitioned from initial chaos to ultimate success.

Link to the full article on JP.

June 2021

Ultra-Orthodox pull U turn on Vaccines

Shlomo Maital

In this article Prof. Shlomo Maital explains why Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community initially dragged their feet on vaccination – and then abruptly changed their minds -and what we can learn from this episode?

Link to the full article in JP.

May 2021

Between Mount Meron and Giv’at Zeev the ultra-orthodox autonomy is hiding

Orit Hazzan

Prof. Orit Hazan about the hidden disaster in the ultra-orthodox society – the Education Autonomy

Link to the full article in JokoPost.

May 2021

The Gaza war: What are the economic costs?

Shlomo Maital

Money is fungible (transferable). Qatari money enables Hamas to use equivalent funds on rockets, instead of on food and electricity for its citizens.

Prof. Shlomo Maital on the cost of the latest Gaza war.

Link to the full article on JP.

May 2021

It is not too late to reconsider

Irad Yavneh

Professor Oded Goldreich has been denied the Israel Prize. Professor Irad Yavneh reminds us of the remarkable contribution of Goldreich’s life work to the State of Israel and calls upon the minister of education to reconsider.

Link to the full opinion in JOKOPOST.

May 2021

Israel’s pandemic economic report card: B+

Shlomo Maital

How well has Israel – the cabinet, Finance Ministry, Bank of Israel, and the people of Israel- managed the pandemic economic crisis?
How well have Israelis fared economically, compared to other countries?
Are we Israelis as resilient as we claim to be?

Link to the full article in JP.

April 2021

Something goes wrong, it is the time for a change

Eitan Adres, Reuven Gal

Based on interviews of 32 prominent Israelis, from diverse walks of life, we find a wide common ground in considering the ‘Declaration of Independence’ to be Israel’s vision for the coming decades.

Updating the ‘rules of the game’ and broad sense of security are needed enablers.

Paradigms in education, Jewish-Democratic state, moral market economy, ‘Mamlachtiut’, Israel in the Middle East, and foreign affairs – are discussed.

Link to the full article in HA’ARETZ.