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Treatment of municipal solid waste in Israel

In Israel, about six million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) are produced every year, and the vast majority is landfilled.The paper sheds light on the MSW market in Israel and presents findings regarding major barriers, strategies for removing those barriers, and value accelerators for achieving the goal set by the regulator – reducing waste landfilling.

How Jews Change the world

In this article, published in the Jerusalem Post, Prof. Shlomo Maital tells us about a century of Jewish genius that changed the world. Followed by an interview with Norman Lebrecht, a British journalist and novelist who wrote the book : ”Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947”.

The irrationality of the flood crisis

Every winter we hear about the collapse of urban drainage infrastructure as a result of heavy rains, but the budget of all drainage authorities in Israel for 2020 is only NIS 55 million, while in Nahariya alone, the cost of damage in January 2020 is estimated at NIS 300 million. In this article published in […]

The irrationality of the flood crisis

Every winter we hear about the collapse of urban drainage infrastructure as a result of heavy rains, but the budget of all drainage authorities in Israel for 2020 is only NIS 55 million, while in Nahariya alone, the cost of damage in January 2020 is estimated at NIS 300 million.

the great money mystery

An interview with Arie Rotenberg – why the mountain of money created by Central Banks, In Israel and abroad , has not caused inflation?!

The business of sleep

An interview with Prof. Peretz Lavie, outgoing president of the Technion about his sleep research and resulting start-ups.

Polity without policy

What happen in democracies, when we the voters, the polity, cast our ballots without any clue about what those we are voting for plan to do? What if those we vote for have no idea themselves what they plan to do? And why are Israel and Western democracies in this pickle?

Polity without policy

What happen in democracies, when we the voters, the polity, cast our ballots without any clue about what those we are voting for plan to do? What if those we vote for have no idea themselves what they plan to do? And why are Israel and Western democracies in this pickle?