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Return to diesel fuel will cost all of us more
Diesel fuel raise up to 6 times the price of producing electricity and causes significant damage to air quality because it is much more polluting than natural gas. Reporting to the GHG registry will enable the organization to assess its emissions and become more energy efficient
Satellites that tango
A growing number of Israeli start-ups are excited by the potential of the growing civilian space industry, now estimated at nearly 300 billion dollar.
Mitzva bonds
Social bonds could link performance with funding and, ultimately, rebuild the public’s trust, eroded by years of waste and corruption.
Needed: Goliaths instead of Davids
Israel needs more than start-up exits, it needs companies that can scale up to global giants. Web builder Wix is taking up the challenge.
Voting our pockets, or our fears
Events have conspired to put the high cost of living on the election back burner
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?
In Israel’s “excess democracy”, with elections and new governments every two years or so, it is difficult to get stable government or to manage a thriving economy — but the solution is not the proposed governance law which glues ministers to their chairs.
