Category: Articles and Interviews
Halacha and the Fourth Estate
Halacha and the Fourth Estate Identifying the Problem “…the player directly responsible for Hapoel losing this critical game was the team’s goalkeeper, Haim Cohen. His amateurish blunder in letting the ball slip through his hands gave Maccabi their first goal, and the second was the result of Cohen’s poor positioning for the free kick. Nor was this the first game […]
» Read moreDiamonds Are Not Forever – an article at Israel Knowledge@Wharton
Diamonds Are Not Forever: Industry Moves from Israel to India: If in the 1980s and 1990s Israel was the world’s major producer of polished diamonds, successfully juggling low labor costs and traditional diamond-cutting knowledge, today the hum of the polishing wheels is mostly silent in Ramat Gan, the city at the heart of the Israeli industry, as the polishing industry has moved abroad, to […]
» Read moreHow Will Egypt’s Political Upheaval Impact Israel? – an article in Israel Knowledge@Wharton
How Will Egypt’s Political Upheaval Impact Israel? “The world has watched in awed amazement as an unprecedented wave of popular political protest has swept North Africa and the Middle East during recent months. For Israel, situated at the heart of the region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf, the potential implications of these developments go far […]
» Read moreIsraeli Venture Capital: Between a Rock and a Hard Place – an article in Israel Knowledge@Wharton
Israeli Venture Capital: Between a Rock and a Hard Place “This has been a bad year for Israeli venture capital funds — but then 2009 was a bad year, too. That alone can go a long way to explaining the angst gripping much of the VC industry in Israel. But the soul-searching now under way in Herzliya, the sleepy […]
» Read moreThe Future of Israeli Harediut
The Future of Israeli Harediut – The Demise of Welfare-State Judaism and Beyond No issue in Israeli public life arouses the range and intensity of emotions as does anything relating to Haredim and Harediut – the terms used for the “ultra-Orthodox” and their lifestyle*1. A typical discussion on any Haredi-related issue is laden with ideology, dogma and opinion, but short […]
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