Between (MACHA”R) Tomorrow and Today: Academic System for Haredim at a Cross-Road
This report focuses on the evaluation of the MACH’AR (“Haredi Frameworks”) Program within the academic institutions in Israel. The program was initiated and conducted by The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC), at The Council for Higher Education, with the purpose of enhancing Haredi integration into academic studies. The report includes a detailed mapping of those […]
How to bring Haredim to science and technology?
This report delineates the factors which may reinforce the integration of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) individuals in science and technology occupations in Israel. In the background there is, first, a growing deficiency of scientific-technological manpower in Israel’s industry (especially high-tech industry), in R&D centers and in academic research institutes; on the other hand, there is obviously a […]
Ultra-Orthodox (‘Haredi’) Jews in Israel’s Society: A 2014 Status Report.
The issue of the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community in Israel and its possible integration with the Israeli society at large has become lately one of the most talked-about in the Knesset committees, Government offices, academic circles, the military, public debates — where not? An interesting question in its own right is why the subject came up […]
Integration and mutual influences
8th compilation of articles
Success Stories
This book features 78 success stories that depict Ultra-Orthodox individuals, men and women, in Israel, who have successfully integrated into the world of academic education , employment and the military. The stories were compiled by researchers in the Ultra-Orthodox Integration Project at the Samuel Neaman Institute, using contacts and sources of information at their disposal […]
Orthodox Employment – Information Booklet Second Edition
This information booklet was written on the basis of knowledge and experience accumulated at the Samuel Neaman Institute during the running of the “Ultra-Orthodox Integration Project”. The booklet is designed for managers and owners of companies and organizations, and human resource managers in these organizations – especially secular ones. It should provide them with the […]
Changes in productivity amongst Jewish women
The following short report attempts to examine some of the data relating to the total fertility trends amongst Jewish Orthodox women , as they were presented in the research of several scholars . Moreover, the document contains a preliminary analysis of the reasons for these trends . The tests mentioned in the paper point to […]
MACHA’R IS ALREADY HERE
In November 2012 , the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC ) of the Council for Higher Education published a Call to all Israeli academic institutions encouraging the creation of specialized Haredi academic frameworks within existing institutions . This Call was the result of a process that began several years before and had gained momentum, after […]
Orthodox Employment – Information Booklet
This information booklet was written on the basis of knowledge and experience accumulated at the Samuel Neaman Institute during the running of the “Ultra-Orthodox Integration Project”. The booklet is designed for managers and owners of companies and organizations, and human resource managers in these organizations – especially secular ones. It should provide them with the […]
Haredi Integration: A Model, Possible Scenerios and Mapping
This report includes several articles, beginning with a model demonstrating a possible approach to government policy regarding Haredi Integration, followed by an examination of possible future scenarios pertaining to the pace of integration, and concluding with the mapping of all academic institutes which cater for the Haredi public.
