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For the fourth time in a decade, the Ministry of Environmental Protection presents a plan to manage municipal solid waste
The Ministry’s plan was designed to increase waste recycling, by separating it into three bins.
To implement it will require government investment, a new dedicated law and the cooperation of local authorities that oppose the Ministry’s proposals.
Prof. Ofira Ayalon from Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and her colleague, Dr. Shira Daskal, recently analyzed the barriers to the management of municipal waste in Israel and presented the causes for previous failures.
The day after: high taxes on air pollution, high-sugar products and road congestion
Manuel Trajtenberg, Itamar Popliker NULL
Due to the huge debt created by the corona crisis, the next government will have to raise taxes while reforming the tax system.
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg and Itamar Popliker have drafted a such proposal in a new policy paper
Scientists in a call to the prime minister to set targets for zero carbon economy
Ofira Ayalon, Tzipi Eshet
This week, 128 scientists approached the Prime Minister, demanding that the Israeli Government will develop a low-carbon economy.
Among the signatories are Prof. Ofira Ayalon and Dr. Tzipi Eshet of Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion.
Following the huge deficit – Prof. Trajtenberg warns, raising taxes will be inevitable
Manuel Trajtenberg
The senior economist and former member of the Knesset Finance Committee, Prof. Trajtenberg, warns that the government’s largesse has been mostly misguided – a tax reform is badly needed that will raise taxes while improving the lot of small business and low earners.
The print technology that tackles wasteful printing habits
An Israeli company markets innovative technology among large companies and government ministries that reduces the use of paper and affects the environmental organizational culture in the ministries.
“The paper production process requires lots of energy and use of water” says Prof. Ofira Ayalon.
A new plan will reduce waste production in Israel
The Ministries of Economy and Environmental Protection have formulated a national plan to promote circular economy- a concept that aims to leave resources in the cycle of production and consumption for a long period of time, instead of becoming waste. A few months ago, Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion
published the findings of a comprehensive survey that identifies barriers to implement circular economy processes.
Recycle the job market
Australians plan to revolutionize waste management to deal with the economic crisis. And what about Israel? Prof. Ofira Ayalon says: “we should leverage the crisis to an opportunity and make lemonade from lemons”
Freeze energy for future use
Idan Liebes
Peter Dirman, developed an energy storage system based on freezing liquid air. “This development combines two energy storage technologies: air compression and cold storage. The innovation is the compression and transfer of air to a liquid state through its cooling”, explains Idan Liebes, an energy policy and smart transportation researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute. “The essence of the development is in the storage solution and less in the energy source. The electricity can come from any source that has a surplus – in this case it is wind turbines.”
Israeli Arab sector surpasses 100 murders since beginning of 2020
The “2018 Personal Security Index: Violence, Crime and Policing in Arab Towns” report, by Dr Nohad Ali from the Abraham Initiatives, the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, Technion, found that 61% of all murder and manslaughter victims in Israel in 2018 were Arab citizens, despite Arabs constituting only 20% of the Israeli population
A profile of the ultra-Orthodox academic world
The following are the words of Dr. Reuven Gal, samuel Ne’eman Institute, Head of the ‘Ultra-Orthodox Integration’ Project: If the characteristics of the ultra-Orthodox public do not change significantly, the State of Israel is expected to reach within about two decades an ultra-Orthodox majority that will be poor, mostly unproductive, relying on government support and not involved in Israeli society and economy.
