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November 2023

The tunnels: How Hamas buried Gaza’s future

Shlomo Maital

The web of tunnels beneath Gaza was made not to facilitate life but to bring death. And it is at long last seen by Israel as an existential strategic threat that must be destroyed.

Link to the full column on JP

November 2023

The Day After The Gaza War

Reuven Gal

The current conflict in the Middle East creates both a need and an opportunity to establish an overarching goal for the day after the war. Gaza has offshore gas in the Mediterranean, known as the Gaza Marine field. Utilizing this gas field, in collaboration with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel – could change dramatically the future of the Gaza Strip population.

Link to the full article on JP

Link to the full article on IsraelOK.com

October 2023

Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu’s gov’t is guilty of fatal incompetence

Shlomo Maital

In no criminal code can you convict anyone for being incompetent. But in politics? Incompetence in Israel has become an existential threat.

Prof. Shlomo Maital is writing on Israel’s worst day, and remined us that: “We may be down, but not out. Jews are resilient. They bounce back from tragedies that might sink other nations.”

Link to the full column on JP

October 2023

Israel’s economic battle plan: Steering the economy through war

Shlomo Maital

How should Israel manage its economy during and after a prolonged war that may be fought on two fronts – South and North?

Here are some thoughts and suggestions from Prof. Shlomo Maital

Link to the full column on JP

September 2023

What causes violence, murders among Israeli Arabs, and what can cure it?

Shlomo Maital

By September 1, some 165 Israeli Arabs had been murdered since the start of the year. The violence is clearly out of control. But why? And what can and should be done?

Prof. Shlomo Maital speak with his Neaman Institute colleague Dr. Nohad Ali on the violence among Israeli Arabs: Causes & cures.

Link to the full column on JP

September 2023

Jewish, Democratic, Whole: it’s time to choose

Eitan Adres

Dr. Eitan Adres, in collaboration with Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph, on the Israeli “trilemma” of the three fundamental values: Jewish state; Democratic state; and the post 1967 war borders.

Link to the full article on JokoPost

August 2023

Not meat or milk: Israeli food tech can help fight climate change

Shlomo Maital

We can no longer afford the luxury of drinking cows’ milk and eating beef. Record heat in July in Israel and abroad has brought this fact home.

Prof. Shlomo Maital brings the breakthroughs of the future in food production, and how it is done.

Link to the full column on the JP

August 2023

What is the origin story of Israel’s Declaration of Independence?

Shlomo Maital

The Israel Story podcast tracked down the closest living relatives of the Israeli Declaration of Independence signatories to ask about what the signers wanted and what they thought of Israel now.

Link to the full column on JP

August 2023

The public is heavily burdened by the greed of monopolies

Shlomo Maital

The public will continue to pay exorbitant prices for goods and services until the market is truly free from the control of cartels and monopolies.

Link to the full opinion on GLOBES

July 2023

Is the Israeli Start-Up Nation era coming to an end?

Shlomo Maital

Start-ups in Israel are in decline. It leads us to ask: Has the Israeli Start-Up Nation era come to an end?

Prof. Shlomo Maital is asking: Save Our Startups

Link to the full column on JP