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The Academic Boycott Strategy That Can Significantly Impact Israel
Professors Boaz Golany and Rivka Carmi emphasize that combating the academic boycott doesn’t demand substantial investments. Instead, it requires mobilizing the right entities within Israel, meticulous planning informed by knowledge and an understanding of essential actions. This includes proactively establishing and maintaining collaborations with relevant international parties, a dedicated foreign relations and lobbying system, and most importantly, a sustained commitment to the struggle over the years. All these efforts can be achieved with relatively modest budgets, given timely implementation.
What’s happening in statistical practice since the “abandon statistical significance” call
Prof. Ron Kenett has published a new post offering a retrospective view on the application of statistical methods across a wide range of problems. This insightful piece, grounded in years of experience, highlights significant developments and methodologies in the field, with a particular emphasis on the past few years.
Engineering and the Public Sector: Do They Go Hand in Hand? The Public Sector Needs Engineering Managers
Prof. Orit Hazzan urges higher education institutions, especially universities that train engineers, to emphasize the potential for engineering students to integrate into the public sector. She highlights the importance of exposing students to employment opportunities in this field, discussing the significance of engineering thinking in state management, promoting social involvement, addressing public sector problems during their degree programs, and offering diverse professional development paths that bridge the business and public sectors
Communities of practice and the elevation of urban elementary teacher discourse about critical pedagogy of place
A new critical ethnographic study co-authored by prof. Tali Tal examines how urban elementary teachers, through a professional development (PD) program, shifted from viewing outdoor teaching spaces with a deficit perspective to an asset-focused one. Utilizing frameworks of communities of practice (CoP) and critical pedagogy of place (CPP), the study reveals how CoP supports discourse on social justice issues linked to local school neighborhoods. The findings underscore the importance of connecting social justice to science teaching to address educational inequities in under-resourced urban communities.
Authors: Gail Richmond, Roberta Hunter, Tali Tal & Grace Tukurah
Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education
Effective Rehabilitation of the Border Settlements
‘A genuine rehabilitation of the border settlements necessitates comparing the land ownership rights of moshavim and kibbutzim with those of city residents. This comparison forms the basis for the “protection, strengthening, and compensation of the settlements” and must be a core element of any effective rehabilitation plan for settlements along the conflict lines in the north, south, east, and elsewhere.’ > Dr. Guy Kagan, in an article published in KAV LAMOSHAV.
A new study recently initiated at the Samuel Neaman Institute, led by Prof. Rachelle Alterman, explores the public rationale behind continuing the national land and housing ownership policy for kibbutzim and moshavim.
The official interview of Professor Rachelle Alterman (the Technion) as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Rachelle – an urban planner and lawyer – is the global founder of the interdisciplinary field of planning and law. She is also a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. She is the first female Technion faculty member to be elected to the National Academy. The main interviewer is Professor Nilli Cohen – a renowned legal scholar, former Rector of Tel Aviv University and President of the Israel National Academy of Sciences. Joining her is Rachelle’s son, Edan Alterman – a famous Israeli TV and theatre star and singer, best known for comedy.
Hamas massacre victims were feudal vassals, not ‘privileged Israelis’
A fact largely unknown by the public, even in Israel, is that both the land and the housing are owned by the state, with property rights often worse than under feudal landlords.
Hamas’s blood-soaked billions: How does the terror group stay rich?
Did Israel and the US really try shutting down the flow of money to Hamas?
“Israeli security officials scored a major intelligence coup in 2018: secret documents that laid out, in intricate detail, what amounted to a private equity fund that Hamas used to finance its operations. The ledgers, pilfered from the computer of a senior Hamas official, listed assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Hamas controlled mining, chicken farming and road building companies in Sudan, twin skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates, a property developer in Algeria, and a real estate firm listed on the Turkish stock exchange. The documents, which The New York Times reviewed, were a potential road map for choking off Hamas’s money and thwarting its plans. The agents who obtained the records shared them inside their own government and in Washington.
Nothing happened.
For years, none of the companies named in the ledgers faced sanctions from the United States or Israel. Nobody publicly called out the companies or pressured Turkey, the hub of the financial network, to shut it down.
Prof. Shlomo Maital on how HAMAS got their money under our noses.
