Informing
Policy
for Progress
September 2013

The professional solution for quality education

Giora Shalgi

Vocational education suffers from a negative public image, for example: Amnon Levy’s unfortunate statements. In reality, it is a valuable asset to the general population of talented students who do not achieve their potential in the theoretical academic stream of education.

September 2013

The chosen few

Shlomo Maital

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. 

August 2013

Israel is tempted to spend

Ofira Ayalon

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.

August 2013

Failure University

Shlomo Maital

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.

July 2013

Storm in the ports

Shlomo Maital

Riddled with nepotism, inflated wages and low productivity, Israel’s ports have fallen behind and their inefficiency is costing consumers billions

June 2013

Israeli innovation dilemma: Wize and Better Place as a metaphor

Gilead Fortuna

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.

 

June 2013

Engineering with soul

Shlomo Maital

Engineers Without Borders find solutions to problems in developing communities

June 2013

Meshi, Are You Slipping Back Into Your Old Ways as the Operations Officer of the Ultra-Orthodox community?

Reuven Gal

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.

June 2013

The black hole of the gas

Ofira Ayalon

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

April 2013

Dear Yair

Shlomo Maital

A letter to Finance Minister Lapid