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?
Industry is not a dirty word
The new Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Naftali Bennett, is changing the name of the Ministry to the Ministry of Economy and Trade. It is not clear why Bennet is making this change but dropping the word “industry” runs contrary to current trends in the advanced western countries. In the past, it was thought that national economies can be based on financial and other services, technological innovation and internet, but the 2008 crisis proved that such economies are on shaky grounds and a strong industrial manufacturing component is essential to solidify the economy. Hence Bennet’s semantic change symbolically runs contrary to current trends and thinking.
Start-up nation packs its bags
Many Israeli startups are choosing to launch in America (specifically, Boston and Route 128), rather than in Israel. We must act to keep them at home.
For them, it costs more
Only large companies benefit from the production of natural gas. Traditional industries will be left behind
The debilitating brain drain
Israel must find a way to ensure that its brightest minds remain at home rather than seek greener pastures abroad
