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Aggressive regulation of private rental will hurt the housing market and will cause an increase in prices
Government policy is trying to increase the supply of rental apartments in Israel by offering extensive subsidies to developers at the expense of the state budget. At the same time, a large rental housing market is actually “subsidize himself” at no cost to the state budget. This market provides about a quarter of the housing units, 50% in Tel Aviv and in some areas in the city even 70%. Most tenants do not abandon the desire to buy an apartment, but need to rent during in transitional stages in their life cycle.
Ten ideas for Naftali Bennett
The new minister needs to put his shoulder to the wheel to get the education system extricated from the mire
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.
