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Netanyahu will not love this, but it’s time to raise taxes
Manuel Trajtenberg
The government should recognize that we have exhausted the decline in social services spending, and formulate a new policy that will strive to increase the budget for health, transportation, education, and housing by about 25 billion NIS per year, and at the same time raise taxes so as to maintain the debt-to-GDP ratio at 60%, “
writes Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg , Former chairman of the National Economic Council, in a new policy document prepared by the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion.
Haredi salute to National Civic Service Article in the “Hapeles” newspaper, 28.6.2019
Dr. Reuven Gal, who served in the past as head of the National Civil Service Administration and is currently a senior fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion, explains that the civic and national service constitute a leverage for the integration of the Haredi population into the Israeli labor market.
Colleges research and Arab society the arguments behind the rate of employment in high-tech
Benjamin Bental, Dan Peled
Another controversial study was published two years ago by the Samuel Neaman Institute. According to this study, there is no shortage of engineers in Israel. Their argument refuted the industry’s claims of a severe shortage of workers, which also led to a sharp increase in programmers’ wages.
According to researchers Dan Peled and Benjamin Bental, there is no gap between the number of engineers qualified each year and the need for the market.
Drowning in waste- Nashim magazine
): Unbalanced consumerism, from food to clothing, imposes an environmental burden both by over use of environmental resources and by waste production. Once we buy something, we need to remember that cheap products are environmentally expensive.
Electrifying Tel Aviv The citys dramatic plan for city transportation is revealed
Ofira Ayalon, Idan Liebes
Charging stations in parking lots, electric shared cars and the prohibition of entry of polluting vehicles
• The Tel Aviv Municipality begins to “electrify” the vehicles in the city, in a process that will last until 2025.
• The project has not yet been budgeted, and it also depends on cooperation with the government
Energy Forum at the Technion: There Is A Need For A Master Plan for Developing the Energy Economy by 2050
Gershon Grossman, Naama Shapira
The government is working without a vision in the energy sector, and a master plan for the sector is needed by 2050, according to the energy forum at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion. In March, in a forum attended by representatives from the private sector and the electricity company, the need arose to establish a longer-term strategic plan than the one set by the government for 2030.
Is Israel safe from an energetic point of view?
The Israeli energy market has unique characteristics. One of the main problems is that the state is isolated from its neighbors in terms of energy supply and export, as an “energy island.”
4 billion NIS in a waste treatment fund in Israel – and only 100 million NIS was used in 2018
In 2018, while Israel is drowning in garbage, the Ministry of Environmental Protection dedicated only 100 million NIS to waste management.
The biggest absurdity is that the money was taken from a 4 billion NIS fund that has been accumulating funds for about 35 years and intended to treat waste and the environment.
32 Israeli cities seek govt support for electric car charging points
Ofira Ayalon, Idan Liebes
The Energy Ministry’s total budget for subsidizing charging stations in Israel for electric cars is NIS 30 million.
The demand for electric charging will be mainly in metropolitan centers, not in the outlying areas, according to a preparatory guide for the local authorities commissioned by the Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources and published by the Samuel Neaman Institute.
Most of the children are in an inappropriate educational environment
Manuel Trajtenberg
“At the moment there are about one million children in some educational institution, And most of them are not appropriate”, said the economist Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, a faculty member of Tel Aviv University and a colleague of the Samuel Neaman Institute, in a panel that dealt with the question of whether the Early Childhood Council would succeed in narrowing the gaps in the Z generation.