To curb binge drinking, follow Israel’s lead
Jewish Journal
September 14, 2016
The scene outside a bar in Tel Aviv looks very different from the scene outside a college party in the United States.
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Israel’s soaring population: Promised Land running out of room?
Jewish Journal
September 25, 2015
Israel\’s birth rate, the highest in the developed world and once seen as a survival tactic in a hostile region, could be its undoing unless measures are taken to reverse the trend.
Will Israel’s achievement gap stall the start-up nation?
Simone Wilson
February 4, 2015
On a foggy hilltop in Israel’s far north, near the Sea of Galilee, around 130 Orthodox Jewish boys sleep in rows of bungalows at the Kfar Zeitim farm-turned-yeshiva.
Israel, unions to start minimum wage talks as national strike looms
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2014
Israeli Finance Minister will start negotiations with the country\’s main labour union on Monday in a bid to avert a national strike over demands to sharply raise the minimum wage, the ministry said.
Israel launches a virtual coin
Jewish Journal
March 27, 2014
A virtual currency called “Bitcoin” has become popular in the past few months.
Keeping Start-Up Nation alive: Financing scale-ups by reinventing Israeli capital markets
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
The historic 2010 dual graduation of Israel to developed country status both within the OECD and MSCI country indexes should have opened its markets to a much larger pool of foreign investors. Instead, there has been a real decrease in foreign portfolio investment and an increase in local portfolio outflows, reducing the future of the local capital investments and overall economic growth.
Karnit Flug, first female Bank of Israel chief, eyeing economic inequality
Jewish Journal
November 6, 2013
Andromeda Hill is a beachfront complex of luxury apartments connected by tree-lined pathways that features such amenities as a spa and business center. Five minutes down the road is Ajami, a low-income neighborhood profiled in the 2009 film of the same name that remains one of this city’s poorer districts.
Social protest leaders hope to shake up Israel ballot
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2013
They are young and they are driven. They got half a million Israelis out on the streets demanding social justice. Now they want their votes.
Report: One-quarter of Israelis—and 37 percent of kids—live in poverty
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2012
The numbers tell a consistent storyline: Nearly one in four Israelis lives in poverty.
Irish pro-Palestinian group petitions OECD
Jewish Journal
May 5, 2011
An Irish activist group has lodged a formal complaint accusing Ireland\’s largest company of \”complicity\” in what it said were violations of international law in Israel. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which filed the complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has asked the OECD to investigate building materials firm CRH for providing cement and equipment for the construction of what it calls the \”illegal\” separation barrier, settlements and checkpoints.
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