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Prepare for the revolution: 2018 is expected to turn electric vehicles standard
Ofira Ayalon, Idan Liebes
The year 2017 has broken records with regard to the sale of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. Will the year 2018 be the year of the breakthrough of the electric vehicle?
According to Prof. Ofira Ayalon of the Samuel Neaman Institute, the state provides two benefits for hybrid vehicles: “The first is a low purchase tax, the second is validated when it comes to a car that is leased from a leasing company.
“Hybrid vehicles are approaching their maximum efficiency potential” says Idan Liebes, also from the Samuel Neaman Institute. “The hybrid is only a stage on the way to the electric vehicle”. Where 2017 was the year of the hybrids, according to Liebes the current year will be a transitional year for electric vehicles. “In 2018 we will see a shift is the market offering, characterized by the debut of multiple mainstream models”.
The gaps will be preserved: The career soldiers who move to the south will live in the prestigious neighborhoods of the Negev
Reuven Gal, Emil Israel, Eran Leck
According to a new study, the mobilization of IDF bases southwards will have no Socio-economic impact on the Negev: The bases will be cut off the neighboring communities and the career soldiers and their families will live in affluent suburbs or in separate settlements that will be built for them.
This is the third study that arrives at similar conclusions.
New worrying findings on mathematics studies in Israel
The soul-searching of the research community in mathematics education: This is how the summation of the conference can be defined Annual research in mathematics education held last week at the Lev Academic Center in Jerusalem. Prof. Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar of the Technion, Senior Research Fellow at the Neaman Institute for Policy Studies And former director of the National Museum of Science (Madatech), emphasized to hundreds of participants the urgent need to update the mathematics curriculum in Israel. In lectures and discussions, the researchers referred to the changes required in mathematics studies from preschool age until the end of high school. Movshovitz-Hadar’s soul-searching was indeed directed at her colleagues the researchers, but it should be heard well among decision makers.
MARKETS UNFAZED BY POLICE RECOMMENDATIONS ON NETANYAHU
The TA-35 and the TA-125 – the indexes with the most highly capitalized companies on the stock exchange – were up 0.52% and 0.66%, respectively, as of closing.
“Israel needs foreign investment,” said Shlomo Maital “The pervasiveness of high-level corruption is growing and must be of concern to those who might consider sending their money to Israel.”
More skyscrapers pop up along Israeli skyline
Israeli urban designers differ on whether condominium towers are the solution for land shortage or actually create new problems, such as disconnection from street life.
In the next storm we will pay a heavier price
The days of the storm last week required the local authorities to prepare. In the moment of truth, the pictures of cars driving rain-fed lakes have also returned, due to lack of preparedness, lack of understanding of climate threats and lack of budgets.
The state should help Teva Now, after all
Teva is a corner stone of the high technology industry which integrate the research, development and production. The Israeli government should try to motivate the company to keep most of the Israeli based infrastructure and implement its productivity enhancement in Israel. It is crucial and should be tried in spite of previous benefits given to the company
Reduction of the price to subscribers produces economic value for users and the country
A study conducted by the Eco-Finance in cooperation with the Samuel Neaman Institute, found that traveling in the Carmel Tunnels produces a positive benefit compared to any alternate route, due to time and money savings, fuel, vehicle wear and pollution. The work showed that the value of the benefits to the users of the tunnels, certainly at peak hours, but not only, is due to the savings in fuel and time, which is higher than the tariff. The work also showed that traveling through the tunnels saves more than 5 million liters of fuel annually and more than 2 million hours of work in the economy. Using the tunnels saves more than NIS 5.5 million to Haifa residents from reducing air pollution.
The Urban Rebellion: plain Simple Citizens Oppose Real Estate development
This story covers the changes (and the reasons for this change) in the civic protests in Israel against real-estate urban development – from protests mainly carried out by environmental activists, to protests by large groups of citizens who are concerned about the impacts of the massive construction due to housing shortage.
The government wants the IDF’s career soldiers to move to the south? Then the government should pay them
The state’s assessment of the mass movement of combat personnel to the south is too optimistic: a study by researchers from the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and Ben-Gurion University states that there is a potential for up to 3,000 people and that only a few hundred may actually move their residence. To meet its goals, the state will have to lure the soldiers tens of thousands of shekels a year. According to the study, permanent personnel are not expected to contribute significantly to the development of the region.