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Threat to Startup Nation: Israeli engineering grads lack basic skills
Arnon Bentur, Tamar Dayan, Avigdor Zonnenshain
A new of Report written by researchers at Samuel Neaman Institute finds that universities are not properly advancing in the education of engineers the development of special soft skills like teamwork, innovativeness and communication.
Not creative, failing time management and bad at team-work : so look graduates of engineering circles
Arnon Bentur, Tamar Dayan, Avigdor Zonnenshain
Israeli graduates lack vital skills for the high-tech world: They have narrow vision, have difficulty communicating and have no idea of regulation and budget, according to research conducted by the Samuel Neaman Institute. In order to curb the erosion of the relevance of academia to the field, the researchers propose a series of changes in training, arguing: “The time of the front staff, resources and expertise are the main obstacles to educational reform”.
The impact of Intel: 52 thousand employed persons in Israel
Intel publishes a corporate responsibility report with data from the Samuel Neaman Institute study, which presents its impact on the Israeli economy and high-tech over the years. In the wake of the forced resignation of the company’s CEO Brian Krzanich following an affair with a worker, Krzanich has led extensive investments in the development and manufacturing center in Israel, with Intel and the government expecting to see who will be the new CEO.
Here Lies the Garbage
About 80 percent of the waste in Israel is transferred to landfills, where it emits greenhouse gases, pollutes soil and groundwater, occupies large tracts of land, damages the landscape and creates odor hazards. A new program should reduce the problem but Prof. Ofira Ayalon says that budgeting alone is not enough for the program to be successfully implemented and that there are many legal processes that must be completed to establish waste treatment plants.
Israel is drying up
Benjamin Bental, Dan Peled
When it comes to a shortage of engineers, it is important to be precise, since many people report that it is difficult for them to integrate into high-tech after school. Not only Arabs and ultra-Orthodox and adults and people with disabilities, but also young university graduates, another study by Professors Dan Peled and Benjamin Bental from the University of Haifa and the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion, says that the shortage is focused on very few engineers. What is lacking in this industry are experienced workers.
The neglect of traditional industry in Israel is liable to harm the economy and high-tech industries
Research by the Smuel Neaman Institute, (Technion) finds that the neglect of the traditional industry in Israel is liable to harm the Israeli economy as a whole, as well as the high-tech industries. “If we do not invest in workers in the classical industries, but only in high tech, 95 percent of the economy will be left behind, with all the risks,” said Dr. Gilead Fortuna, a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion.
Do not be afraid: The ultra-Orthodox understand that they need to change. Article in Ha’aretz-The Marker.
The question of the integration of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) sector into Israeli society does not disappear, and the stormy discussion of the problem requires careful examination. Events like the recent lecture by retired judge Aharon Barak to Haredi students, in which men and women were separated by a partition, or the CSC’s decision to open a Civil Service Cadets’ course for ultra-Orthodox men only — created a wave of criticism and protest especially from secularists who are afraid, perhaps unjustly, of the growing dominance of “ultra-Orthodoxy” in Israel. The article analyses the roots of these fears and illuminates the fast-paced changes occurring within the Haredi society, faster, in fact, than their demographic pace of growth.
Essam Daod: Making migrants whole
THE STATISTICS are appalling. According to the United Nations refugee agency, there are 66 million displaced persons in the world . And every year that number grows.Israel wanted to dump asylum seekers (illegal infiltrators, the government calls them) on Uganda. Uganda already has a million refugees. Migrants all over the world risk their lives to flee the country they have come from and most of them live in extreme poverty. The Israeli psychiatrist Dr. Essam Daod rescues migrants off the coast of Libya – making them whole in spirit.
All of learning is changing, all of measurement is changing, and everything that we are learning is being overturned in front of our very eyes
Sheizaf Rafaeli
Chatbots and artificial intelligence are already changing the world of learning, education and teaching, says Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, a senior research associate at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion, and head of the Internet Research Center at Haifa University. “Today the rules are being created by machine learning, and this is without human intervention. Those who wish to be frightened can write apocalyptic SciFi literature, and those who wish to be Luddites may do so.”
Galatz interview: Facebook announced a new feature
Sheizaf Rafaeli
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday a new possibility on the world’s largest social network – erasing our browsing history. Mark Zuckerberg says many websites need information such as cookies, cookies and browsing history to operate, but you should have the option to delete your browsing history at any time! We’re working on a similar version on Facebook. This is a simple setting to delete your browsing history, what you clicked, the sites you visited, and so on. Call it simply cleaning history. But of course do not rush now to try to erase your Facebook history because this tool will be launched in just a few months.
Because of Russian involvement in the US presidential election in 2016, where she bought political ads on Facebook, among others. Facebook will now give us, users, tools for transparency in publishing political messages. We’ll know who posted the ad, how much money was invested in the campaign, and which ads are shown to other people on the social network.
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