Informing
Policy
for Progress

Satellites that tango

A growing number of Israeli start-ups are excited by the potential of the growing civilian space industry, now estimated at nearly 300 billion dollar.

Mitzva bonds

Social bonds could link performance with funding and, ultimately, rebuild the public’s trust, eroded by years of waste and corruption.

Needed: Goliaths instead of Davids

Israel needs more than start-up exits, it needs companies that can scale up to global giants. Web builder Wix is taking up the challenge.

On wings of carbon

Israel Aerospace Industries is engaged in high-tech manufacturing for the F-35 fighter jet project.

The pensions time bomb

In less than a decade, payments from the old-age benefits fund will exceed income, and by 2042 or earlier, the whole fund will be gone. Despite 20 years of legislation and reforms, the penion crisis has become worse.