The Carob Tree – A Radical Evolutionary Systemic Solution to the Pension Crisis (English)
The Challenge Israel’s elderly poverty problem is among the worst in OECD nations. One in every five persons 65 and over (totaling 185,000 persons) is poor. Many are Holocaust survivors. For them time is rapidly running out, as 1,000 of them die each month. The National Insurance Institute’s reserve fund, managed by the Bank of […]
Energy Forum 35: Energy Storage in Electricity Production
The electric power grid, by its nature, operates under unsteady conditions resulting from fluctuations in both power supply and demand. This results in difficulties in managing the grid. There are several ways to deal with such problems, the most immediate of which is the power utilities control mechanism which starts or shuts down different power […]
Between (MACHA”R) Tomorrow and Today: Academic System for Haredim at a Cross-Road
This report focuses on the evaluation of the MACH’AR (“Haredi Frameworks”) Program within the academic institutions in Israel. The program was initiated and conducted by The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC), at The Council for Higher Education, with the purpose of enhancing Haredi integration into academic studies. The report includes a detailed mapping of those […]
The Carob Tree – A Radical Evolutionary Systemic Solution to the Pension Crisis (Hebrew)
The Challenge Israel’s elderly poverty problem is among the worst in OECD nations. One in every five persons 65 and over (totaling 185,000 persons) is poor. Many are Holocaust survivors. For them time is rapidly running out, as 1,000 of them die each month. The National Insurance Institute’s reserve fund, managed by the Bank of […]
How to bring Haredim to science and technology?
This report delineates the factors which may reinforce the integration of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) individuals in science and technology occupations in Israel. In the background there is, first, a growing deficiency of scientific-technological manpower in Israel’s industry (especially high-tech industry), in R&D centers and in academic research institutes; on the other hand, there is obviously a […]
Dual Use of Space technologies and satellites
The dictated space system development method and system characteristics results systems with high similarity between commercial (civilian) systems and military one, i.e. most of them are with a nature of Dual Use (DU). This report reviews the status of DU operational modes and their usage, in the world and specifically in Israel in the specific […]
Upgrading the economic system in the north of the country
In mid-2014, SNI joined a venture with the Ministry of Economic and Industries, aimed at drafting a plan for substantial improvement of the economic status of the North. During 2015, the project was completed and a summary report, which includes an analysis of the socioeconomic situation in the north, and recommendations to realize change-generating infrastructure […]
R&D Activity, infrastructures and human resources in the civil space sector: Academy, Industry and education system in Israel
This work was commissioned by the National Space Committee, the National Council for R&D. The objective of this study is to provide data and information to all entities operating in the field of space R&D on their role and the status of personnel and infrastructure at their disposal, in order to help the NCRD formulate […]
Survey to examine difficulties of nano technology transfer from the academy to industry
SNI won a closed tender to perform a study for the Chief Scientist and INNI, designed to examine the difficulties of Nano technology transfer from the academy to implementation in the Israeli industry and to propose possible ways to overcome them. The study was based on structured interviews with stakeholders, survey distribution among researchers of […]
Upgrading the economic systems of Israels north
In mid-2014, SNI joined a venture with the Ministry of Economic and Industries, aimed at drafting a plan for substantial improvement of the economic status of the North. During 2015, the project was completed and a summary report, which includes an analysis of the socioeconomic situation in the north, and recommendations to realize change-generating infrastructure […]