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The state neglects health R&D and the public pays an economic and health price
Government Ministries ‘Expenditure on Civilian R&D in the Health Sector amounted to less than 1% of total government ministries’ expenditure on civilian R&D “The government should intervene in places where the private market fails to operate alone”
Should Israel burn waste
One of the first decisions of Gila Gamliel, Minister of Environmental Protection, was to delay the implementation of the waste master plan to establish energy recovery facilities from waste and the establishment of a new advisory team on the issue, only a few weeks after her predecessor decided to promote the issue.
“Energy recovery from waste is a suitable solution that is implemented in many countries around the world, but it has to be done in a sustainable manner. Energy production must meet all environmental regulations, economic and social standards,” explains Prof. Ofira Ayalon of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Haifa and the head of the environment cluster at the Samuel Neaman Institute.
The state networking program for the electric vehicle era
Ofira Ayalon, Idan Liebes, Naama Shapira
The expansion of the supply of electric car models in Israel announced by car importers led the Ministry of Energy to formulate a preparation guide for the big municipalities to upgrade the car charging infrastructure, which indicates that each city will be required to build hundreds of charging stations in the next five years. The guide, authored by the Samuel Neaman Institute and the Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative in the Prime Minister’s Office, was finalized last week and is scheduled to be sent to all municipalities as early as this week.
It is mandatory to build green energy facilities on roofs
Prof. Rachelle Alterman, Senior Researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion, recommends requiring that developers install green energy facilities on rooftops or windowsof new residential buildings and “as a first step that is also educational” to require government offices to set up such facilities on their roofs
Gila Gamaliel is aborting her predecessor’s incinerator plan
Comprehensive work needs to be done – including an examination of alternatives and a comprehensive economic analysis, “said Prof. Ofira Ayalon, who has been involved in waste management research for many years at the Samuel Neaman Institute and the University of Haifa.”
The solutions that fit Be’er Sheva may not be suitable for Kiryat Shmona. It may be that in Be’er Sheva, the solution that currently fits is a landfill solution, as opposed to a completely different situation in Kiryat Shmona, where it may be appropriate to promote waste to energy plant or small anaerobic facility.
The array of technologies exists, we don’t have to invent it. The Ministry of the Environmental Protection, in its strategic plan, suggested 1,500 tons per day incineration plants – these are very large facilities, while 500-700 tpd facilities are mostly used in the world. It’s unclear why these large facilities are preferred”
Public Health Success,Economic Failure: Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg Defines the “Corona Paradox”
Manuel Trajtenberg
The potential for social unrest is large – but management of economic policy reflected ongoing failure.
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg (senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, Technion) is deeply concerned about macroeconomic data, and the likelihood of additional social protest,
and despite everything, he believes that we have stood the test in managing the public health aspects of the pandemic.
Saves lives, save jobs
Professor Shlomo Maital examines the dilemma facing the Israeli government – saving lives, saving jobs: and reviews the economic bailout program.
We Will Bounce Back
Professor Shlomo Meital conducts an interview with colleague Dr. Reuven Gal on the question – How do we Israelis recover from the crisis?
Boomer lives with Millennials: Will the Plague Promote Intergenerational Solidarity?
“There is no doubt that the Corona epidemic is a wake-up call,” says Prof. Ofira Ayalon, head of environmental affairs at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources at the University of Haifa,
“But it is important to say that while it is a crisis that threatens all countries in the same way, the climate crisis will hit different countries in different ways – in one flood and another in the form of fires, heat or cold waves. So it will be difficult to learn from the Corona lesson how to work together as one global world, but we can learn from it how to prepare the health system for disasters, and how to be more communal because central government’s ability to help is limited and the real safety-net is the community”.
How long can children be locked in the tower should be redesigned
Senior planning officials are thinking about how to learn from the Corona outbreak
Prof. Rachelle Alterman is a senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Policy Studies at the Technion, who believes the Corona crisis but illustrates how problematic are tower buildings, especially residential ones: “Towers could be a contagious trap. You shun the elevator because the virus might be in this small area and on its surfaces. You can’t bring in a stretcher. Even if you want to go down the hundreds of stairs, there is a problem because they are a small closed space.
