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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.
How is Israel preparing for climate change?
In Israel, a significant climate change program has recently been presented, focusing on coping with its results: Israel’s national plan for climate change, approved by the government after nine years of research and writing. The program, written by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, in consultation with government ministries, bodies and experts from various fields, represents an important step in the process of preparing for climate change, whose destructive impact on Israel and the world is expected to only increase in the coming years. Prof. Ayalon, former head of ICCIC, says that in order to execute the plan it must be funded.
A dirty solution for saving food
The initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture to reduce food loss by packing fruits and vegetables in plastic may be a good intention, but it may create a new and unnecessary problem that will overshadow the problem of lost food.
Prof. Ofira Ayalon is not convinced that this is such a bad solution. “The goal of the move is to reduce the depreciation of vegetables and fruits, but scientifically, there is no answer at the moment what is preferable”.
Want to foster engineering leadership? That’s how it’s done right
Arnon Bentur
Being an engineer in the 21st century is much more than planning, doing calculations and writing code. Today’s engineer is required to be able to work in a team, independent learning throughout life and to be able to deal with solving complex problems in situations of uncertainty. These are the demands of advanced industry in Israel and around the world.
The Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion recently published a report entitled “Educating Engineers in the 21st Century”, which reinforces the view that advocates the need to expand the education of the Israeli engineer in the early stages of his training, And to withstand global competition.
Reinventing the recycling
The state of plastic waste management in Israel is very bleak: the pollution is increasing, the research is lagging, the policy of dealing with the crisis is unclear, and the last recycling plant is closing its doors – perhaps the hope will come from Italy, where scientists have developed an innovative facility that promises to recycle all plastics.
The French connection
Tsipy Buchnik, Daphne Getz, Ilia Zatcovetsky
How should European educational institutions deal with Muslim immigration?
What is the right way to promote women in the science fields? How do we fight a boycott against Israel, and why do Jews get so many Nobel Prizes? The women at the head of the national academies of science in France and Israel, physicist Prof. Katherine Barshiniak and law professor Prof. Nili Cohen, met this week to discuss the “France-Israel season” beside the mutual compliments and co-work they also manage to argue.