Economic populism
Would you put your car in the hands of a mechanic that did not learn car mechanics and has no understanding in cars?
Few weeks before election day, the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister are employing economic populism by spending billions of shekels contrary to the opinion of the senior professional echelon in the Ministry of Finance, claiming that it is not democratic to tell elected officials what they can and cannot do!
Economic populism
Would you put your car in the hands of a mechanic that did not learn car mechanics and has no understanding in cars?
Few weeks before election day, the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister are employing economic populism by spending billions of shekels contrary to the opinion of the senior professional echelon in the Ministry of Finance, claiming that it is not democratic to tell elected officials what they can and cannot do!
Do Deficits Matter?
Israel’s Finance Ministry recently announced that massive government spending during the 2020 pandemic generated a huge leak in the budget bucket.
Do deficits matter? Should the government have spent more? Or less? Who will pay for the added debt? How does Israel compare to other countries?
In this article Prof. Shlomo Maital explores these issues in depth.
Do Deficits Matter?
Israel’s Finance Ministry recently announced that massive government spending during the 2020 pandemic generated a huge leak in the budget bucket.
Do deficits matter? Should the government have spent more? Or less? Who will pay for the added debt? How does Israel compare to other countries?
In this article Prof. Shlomo Maital explores these issues in depth.
Another lesson from the Corona Year
For many months now, mayors have been desperately trying to explain to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ‘disunity-government’, that they understand their city’s situation better than the politicians sitting sealed in Jerusalem and would like to run the plague themselves.
In this article, Prof. Shlomo Meital explains why only when they realize that politics is local, will we defeat the Corona.
Ageism out! Sageism in!
There are one million people over 65 in Israel– one person in every nine and By 2035, there will be 1.66 million elderly, as their numbers grow more than twice as fast as the general population.
In this article, published in the JERUSALEM REPORT, Prof. Shlomo Maital is asking:
Are we caring adequately for our senior citizens?
Do we have respect and reverence for the wisdom and knowledge of the elderly?
The effect of expiration date and label type on food waste
Food waste is a waste of water, energy, materials required for its production, and during the treatment of waste – pollutants are emitted into the water, soil and air.
A study conducted by Prof. Ofira Ayalon and colleagues at the University of Haifa, found that more than half of food waste consists of edible food, some of which is due to misunderstanding of expiration labels.
Treatment of municipal solid waste in Israel
In Israel, about six million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) are produced every year, and the vast majority is landfilled.
The paper sheds light on the MSW market in Israel and presents findings regarding major barriers, strategies for removing those barriers, and value accelerators for achieving.
How Jews Change the world
In this article, published in the Jerusalem Post, Prof. Shlomo Maital tells us about a century of Jewish genius that changed the world. Followed by an interview with Norman Lebrecht, a British journalist and novelist who wrote the book :” Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947.”
The irrationality of the flood crisis
Every winter we hear about the collapse of urban drainage infrastructure as a result of heavy rains, but the budget of all drainage authorities in Israel for 2020 is only NIS 55 million, while in Nahariya alone, the cost of damage in January 2020 is estimated at NIS 300 million.
In this article published in Calcalist, Prof. Ofira Ayalon highlights the problems of poor management on the part of the local government and shows us that it can be done differently.
