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hole in the ivory tower
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
Academics understand that if they want to live (and budgets) they have to overcome the aversion to popular media, get off the ivory tower and make their studies available to the public
20 million Israelis in 2065: ” construction of 40-story towers has begun”
The CBS forecass 20 million residents in Israel in 2065. The real estate sector warns about lack of preparedness for rapid growth. Planning 40-story towers as the usual residential buildings, creating three new cities and completely halting permission to build single-family homes – what should our future homes look like? Professor Rachelle Alterman of the Neaman Institute at the Technion warns against exaggeration in tower housing.
The President of Israel received the report ” Grand Strategy For Israel ” from Prof. Uzi Arad and Prof. Zehev Tadmor
The President of the State, Reuven Rivlin, received the report of the Samuel Neaman Institute Grand Strategy Forum for Israel from Prof. Uzi Arad and Prof. Zehev Tadmor at the President’s Residence. The President stressed: “The Forum for Grand Strategy is a hostel for intelligent thinking of analysis, discussion and planning. Each of you has his rich experience and accomplishments. Your various points of view to examine the conditions of the situation and the processes that develop in the broad and long-term perspective are important and essential in the in-depth analysis of the report and its importance, Congratulations to all of you”
Depending on the Chinese
Arnon Bentur
Thousands of construction workers from China are expected to land soon in Israel following an agreement signed this week between the Minister of Housing and senior officials from a Chinese delegation that arrived in Israel. Hope that the additional housing headquarters Chinese workers contribute to shortening the duration of the construction of apartments in new-a necessary step toward solving the housing crisis. The Chinese, for their part, complement another step of deepening economic involvement in the Middle East and in Israel, in accordance with the current strategy of the Chinese government.
The research at Neaman Institute suggests that this mode of action may provide temporary relief to the pressure for housing, but it will not serve the long term objective of mobilizing the current challenge as an opportunity to overhaul the construction sector in Israel, to turn it into an industry of high level productivity, to benefit the whole Israeli economy and provide attractive jobs to Israeli citizens.
DEFYING GRAVITY
The apple that fell from a tree and bonked young Isaac Newton on the head led him to contemplate the laws of gravity. Some 350 years later, and despite the recent detection of Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves, gravity is still not well understood. Yet, everything obeys Newton’s law, which says things fall to the earth – except perhaps the economy of Israel ‒, which continues to thrive despite all the odds and obstacles, when many other Western economies remain stagnant and shackled.
Prepare for sea level rise,And save billions
Sea level rise is expected to affect hotels, power plants, desalination facilities and localities. If so, why is there no comprehensive deployment in Israel for the effects of sea level rise on coastal areas, despite assessments in Europe that such preparations could save billions?
Salt of the Earth
Arab women have had enough of being a victim, there is a change in the attitude toward violence
Siham Azbarka, who was shot dead last week by a masked man in her home in Lod, joined a long list of 55 women murdered in Arab society since 2012. These murders have long awakened socially active women in Arab society who point an accusing finger at welfare, police and patriarchal Arab society, while risking their lives.
A green day in the life of Prof. Ofira Ayalon
A green day in Prof. Ofira Ayalon’s life
The absurdity of the electric vehicle
A new US study shows a strange scenario where the electric vehicle often causes more pollution due to lower air pollution in cities but increase pollution near power stations.
Prof. Ayalon presented the results of her study- the cleaner the electricity is, the higher are the environmental and economic benefits obtained.