Informing
Policy
for Progress

Garbage dreams

If one wants to deal with the problem of separating organic waste and motivate households to separate waste at the source, we need to let big businesses start the process

Predicting the future

Kira Radinsky, 27, was recently selected for MIT Technology Review’s list of leading global innovators under 35.

How to turn a small enterprise into a great success

You should draw conclusions from Israeli peer group who successfully deal with the difficult test of making small, traditional industrial enterprises, numbering less than – 50 employees, to large enterprises that sell in more than 100 million shekels a year.

The professional solution for quality education

Vocational education suffers from a negative public image, for example: Amnon Levy’s unfortunate statements. In reality, it is a valuable asset to the general population of talented students who do not achieve their potential in the theoretical academic stream of education.

The chosen few

How literacy helped the Jews: This new book, The Chosen Few, shows how the Jewish people survived and thrived, until the Iberian Expulsion of 1492, because of Torah study and widespread literacy – It was not anti-Semitism that shaped the Jews’ destiny, but literacy.

Storm in the ports

Riddled with nepotism, inflated wages and low productivity, Israel’s ports have fallen behind and their inefficiency is costing consumers billions

Israeli innovation dilemma: Wize and Better Place as a metaphor

The lesson from the success of waze and failure of Better Place is that it is not possible to implement the whole vision at the start of your journey. It is more important to build a company step by step, while understanding the market limitations and the customer expectations.