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November 2021

Healthy Israelis, ailing healthcare: Inside the paradox

Shlomo Maital

Recent shortages that occurred due to the pandemic severely stressed healthcare facilities and those who work in them.

Prof. Shlomo Maital interviews Dr. Jesse Lachter, head gastroenterologist for Meuhedet.

Link to the full article on JP

October 2021

Israel’s COVID vaccine: Yes, we can!

Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital brings the story of Israel’s coronavirus vaccine. Warning: It may not have a happy end.

Link to the full article on JP

September 2021

How the US slashed child poverty: Lessons for Israel

Shlomo Maital

Israel has neglected its poor children for decades, while in recent months, in one fell swoop, the US has slashed child poverty by 40% or more.

How did the US do this? And what can Israel learn from it?

Link to the full article on JP

September 2021

World War II’s secret Jewish commandos: X Troop

Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital brings a particularly stunning yet-untold World War II story by Hunter College Professor Leah Garrett – a book about 87 Jewish commandos, an unlikely band of brothers, who together played a decisive role in defeating the hated Nazis.

Link to the full article on JP

September 2021

Arab Israelis: Is anybody listening?

Shlomo Maital

As Prof. Shlomo Maital writes in this article, we Israelis have many stellar qualities. But listening patiently to those with whom we may disagree is not one of them.

In this article we get the opportunity to listen to Shams Marie Abomokh, a remarkable young woman from Baka al-Gharbiya.

Link to the full article in JP

August 2021

Lebanon: Who destroyed it, and what happens next?

Shlomo Maital

Nations fail when self-interest, rampant like the Delta variant, becomes dominant and spreads viciously.

Let us look north and treat Lebanon as a life lesson.

Link to the full article in the JP

July 2021

COVID led schools the wrong way – here’s how we fix it

Shlomo Maital

There is a critical skills gap emerging, between the skills that industry wants and needs when hiring workers and the skills that potential employees have acquired in school.

Link to the full article in the JP

July 2021

The digital twin and condition based maintenance

A series of three blogs emphasizing the role of digital twins in providing monitoring diagnostic and prognostic capabilities, with examples from condition based maintenance.

July 2021

Iron Dome: The inside story

Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital reviews the inside story of the iron dome project and the man behind it, by the person who headed the project at RAFAEL: Chanoch Levin.

Link to the full article in the JP

July 2021

How Israel conquered coronavirus

Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital brings us the story of how Israel conquered COVID-19 and transitioned from initial chaos to ultimate success.

Link to the full article on JP.