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Connected Economics - The Threat - Part 1
Almost four years ago, I presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Government Economic leaders the slides and insights which later became the basis for the 2010 Humus Manifesto. At the time, I...
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New York Times Editorial: Israel Cannot Be a Normal Country
Today's New York Times editorial on Israel's elections is somewhere between obnoxious, patronizing and offensive. We are already used to the fact that the New York Times patronizingly thinks that it...
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Filling Stanley Fischer's Unpredictable Shoes
Much has already been written of Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer's resignation. It is not secret that I have been a big fan of Fischer's throughout his term and the way in which he...
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Connected Economics - Part 2 - Wasteful Spending, Corporate Taxes and Obama's...
Three economic events threaten to rattle the Israeli Economy in the coming 3-24 months and they can either be very negative or a catalyst for positive change.1. Israel's budget deficit and the required...
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New Politics v. Old Politics
When Prime Minister Netanyahu looks at the results of Israel's recent election, he sees a different outcome than the voters see, or at least an outcome he is unwilling to live with. The outcome of the...
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Lapid's Un-innovative Budget
Up until he presented his budget, I admired Yair Lapid and was impressed by his entry into the Ministry of Finance. He built a great management team starting with Yael Andoran. Hiring the right team is...
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מצגר ו"השיטה"
בלימודי עם אבי הבוקר , קראנו במסכת שביעית שבתלמוד הירושלמי על רב שמואל בר נחמן שעודד ותמך ביהודי שזרע בשנת השמיטה כדי לפרנס את משפחתו חרף המצוקה הכלכלית שנגרמה מהמסים שהטילו הרומאים על היהודים בארץ...
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Harav Yehuda Amital: The Pioneer of the Equal Partnership
Today marks the 3rd anniversary (Yahrtzeit) of Harav Yehuda Amital זצ"ל, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a man who had a tremendous impact on the arc of my life. This week marked the...
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The Israeli Newspapers' False Over 45 Narrative
Israel's newspapers all shouted this morning that the the amount of time it takes an over 45 year old high tech worker to find a job has increased to 21 weeks. Everyone is outraged! The headlines...
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The Best Mobile Centric Tech News App
If you are a tech news junkie like I am, then I suggest you download Seeking Alpha's* Tech Investor App. As an FYI, Seeking Alpha is highly influential as 1.1 million people already subscribe to...
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Does "Israel" Throttle Dropbox?
I am a heavy user of Dropbox*. Dropbox changed my behavior about a year ago when I started uploading all of my photos to Dropbox to save them and share them. It is an incredible service and works...
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Bob Rosenschein: The Oleh's Unassuming Hero of Start Up Nation
At the Aleph Launch party last week, I saw a familiar smiling face who came from Jerusalem to Rothschild Blvd. just to attend and say Mazal Tov and congrats. He too was an Oleh from the United States,...
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Invest in People, Not Factories - Connected Economics Part 3
Populist Israeli politicians and commentators lambasted Israeli generic pharmaceutical giant Teva last week. Journalists piled on, tarring and feathering Teva for allegedly misusing the government tax...
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The End of The Retail Worker in Israel...and Everywhere Else?
When Office Depot in Israel shut down and fired hundreds of retail workers, it was not an isolated incident. It was a harbinger, or the beginning of the end for physical retail. More ominously, it is...
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All In On The Tablet
On Thursday night, my car was broken into in a parking lot in Tel Aviv and my laptop was stolen. After setting up iCloud and findmyiphone to track it and erase it, I immeditaely turned to buying a new...
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ממשל זמין?? לא לטאבלטים!
מדינת ישראל עדיין תקועה עם מיקרוסופט. מסתבר שאי אפשר אפילו לראות טופס של המדינה באייפד. חייבים אקספלורר. חייבים מחשב נייד שזה כידוע כבר לכולם אין לי כי הוא נגנב כשפרצו לי לאוטו (למזלי לשוטר היה מחשב...
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My experiment continues. I am without a computer for 10 days now and working exclusively on my iPad. Here are some more interim conclusions.1. I have not written a blog in 8 days because it is harder...
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10 Policy Initiatives Israel Must Do to Spur Job Creation Through Small Business
Minister Bennet With Head of German Standards AssociationFollowing my last post on the coming wave of unemployment from the slowdown in physical retail and its attendant industries, I want to suggest...
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Israel's Next President Should Be Rabbi Dr. Lord Jonathan Sacks
Most Israelis would agree that Shimon Peres has been an excellent President of the State of Israel for the last 10 years. With all of the political maneuvering currently going on between Rubi Rivlin,...
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