The chosen few
How literacy helped the Jews: This new book, The Chosen Few, shows how the Jewish people survived and thrived, until the Iberian Expulsion of 1492, because of Torah study and widespread literacy – which became the Jews’ core competency and made them key players in global business and banking. It was not anti-Semitism that shaped the Jews’ destiny, but literacy.
Israel is tempted to spend
Policy makers and decision makers in Israel must account for the whole picture in their considerations – not just on the narrow economic dimension according to which we have a resource that is available at relatively low cost.
Failure University
Resilience in the face of failure is the secret ingredient that drives both Israeli and American entrepreneurs. The startup Modu, which went bankrupt in Nov. 2010, led to 15 new startups, among them Comigo, launched by Dov Moran, who founded Modu. Entrepreneurs learn a lot from their failures and are not deterred by them.
Storm in the ports
Riddled with nepotism, inflated wages and low productivity, Israel’s ports have fallen behind and their inefficiency is costing consumers billions
Israeli innovation dilemma: Wize and Better Place as a metaphor
The lesson from the success of waze and failure of Better Place is that it is not possible to implement the whole vision at the start of your journey. It is more important to build a company step by step, while understanding the market limitations and the customer expectations.
Engineering with soul
Engineers Without Borders find solutions to problems in developing communities
Meshi, Are You Slipping Back Into Your Old Ways as the Operations Officer of the Ultra-Orthodox community?
Have you not learned that incitement leads nowhere? Have not you learned that in war we all lose? • Dr. Reuven Gal, who deals with Ultra-Orthodox employment in stunned from Yehuda Meshi Zahav’s call for civil disobedience.
The black hole of the gas
There are many questions that need essential answers. Impartial work is required in order to examine the potential and the capability of the economy to absorb the gas
The Hawk vs. Dove debate
Should the defense budget be cut? Can it be cut? And if so, by how much?
