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July 2017

The Era of Gut Feelings in Management is Over

Avigdor Zonnenshain

The data management revolution is a golden opportunity for the traditional industry in Israel to improve productivity by adopting innovative technologies and methods for managing and extracting data  

July 2017

Is Israel no longer drying up?

Ofira Ayalon

In this article published in The Marker, Prof. Ofira Ayalon criticizes the Israeli government for its lagging attitude towards water consumption in the State of Israel. Prof. Ofira Ayalon noted data pointing the possibility of a future shortage of water in Israel, and called on the Israeli government to raise public awareness of the water problem and to invest in finding technological solutions to this problem.

April 2017

LET’S SAY HELLO

Shlomo Maital

Intel’s $ 15 billion  purchase of Mobileye could be the way to go for Israeli hi-tech bringing in jobs and expertise rather than taking away brains

April 2017

The high cost of flight

Shlomo Maital

Kobi Alexander’s journey from hi-tech visionary to convicted felon.

January 2017

Israel and Trump heat up the world

Ofira Ayalon

A few hours after the inauguration of The President of the United States, Mr. Donald Trump, The White House issued a statement on the future attitude of the new government towards the energy sector. While the new statement includes a commitment to promote clean air and water, the new policy also commits to promote America’s energy independence through the use shale gas and the clean coal technologies for power generation. These technologies not only pollute, they also a major contribution to Greenhouse Gases emissions.

January 2017

Will Iran win the technology war?

Shlomo Maital

In his article, Prof. Shlomo Maital analyzes the investment of the Iranian government (and even the religious establishment in Iran) in technological and scientific education, and its results, against the investment in the State of Israel in those fields. According to the data, Prof. Maital concludes that Iran is closing gaps with Israel in the “war” over technological supremacy, and that policymakers in Israel should pay more attention to this trend, which has a decisive security and economic impact on the State of Israel.

January 2017

Will Iran win the technology war?

Shlomo Maital

In his article, Prof. Shlomo Maital analyzes the investment of the Iranian government (and even the religious establishment in Iran) in technological and scientific education, and its results, against the investment in the State of Israel in those fields. According to the data, Prof. Maital concludes that Iran is closing gaps with Israel in the “war” over technological supremacy, and that policymakers in Israel should pay more attention to this trend, which has a decisive security and economic impact on the State of Israel.

December 2016

The Best of times, The Worst of times

Shlomo Maital

Hugh forest fires that left hundreds homeless and caused over a billion shekels in damages highlighted the ability of Israelis to rally in times of adversity, but also fanned sectarian tensions and raised questions about disaster preparations

December 2016

Follow the money

Shlomo Maital

How will Donald Trump’s economic outlook affect Israel and the world?

November 2016

If Alona bareket can, so can you

Orit Hazzan

If you had 100 million shekels, how would you invest them? houses, a private jet, jewelry or football? Alona Barkat chose to invest this amount in a football club. If you think about it thoroughly, this choice is very sophisticated, and has implications beyond the success of the Hapoel Beer Sheva football club, owned by Barket.