‘Israel 2020′ is a landmark document to those interested in local development and the challenge of socio-economic leapfrogging. The document, finalized in the late 1990s, is the most comprehensive planning project carried out in Israel in recent years. Its principles were accepted in NOP no. 35 – a national plan for building, development and preservation [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Leapfrogging’
Israel 2020 – Spatial Planning to Support Leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Israel 2020, Leapfrogging on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Israel and the Economic Crisis 2: Transformative Change in the Credit Market
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged economic crisis, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrogging on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The sense of urgency due to the current economic crisis provides an opportunity for comprehensively reforming institutions to create incentives for long term thinking.
Integrating Israel’s Arab Citizens
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Israeli Arabs, Leapfrogging on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reut Institute recently completed a document which deals with the challenge of socially and economically integrating Israel’s Arab citizens as part of generating a socio-economic leapfrog that will place Israel among the leading 15 nations in the world in terms of quality of life.
The Bat Yam Model for Personal Education
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Leapfrogging on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A unique bottom up initiative in Bat Yam could shed light on the dynamics of successful bottom up initiatives and how to harness them to the challenge of socio-economic leapfrogging in Israel.
2nd annual ISRAEL 15 Conference – June 8th 2009
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrog, Leapfrogging, Reut Conference on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since 2006, the Reut Institute has been studying the theoretical underpinnings of what types of policy, leadership and decision making will enable Israel to leapfrog into one of the leading countries in quality of life. In this context, we plan to host the 2nd annual ISRAEL 15 Conference on June 8th 2009. The Conference aims [...]
Israel’s Economy: Freer but still far from leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Competitiveness, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrogging on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite Israel’s overall improvement in Economic Freedom, the large and uncompetitive nature of the public sector is a setback for socio-economic leapfrog.
New Accountants in Mea Shearim?
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged charedi, labor, Leapfrogging on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Thursday the Reut team toured Mea Shearim, an Ultra Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The trip marked the culmination of a year long bi-weekly seminar on Jewish Identity and leadership guided by CLI and funded by the Schusterman Foundation.
Untapped Paths to Economic Growth
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged economic crisis, Hausmann, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrogging, product space on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Ministry of Finance’s plan for dealing with the economic crisis recommends doubling the budget for industrial R&D. However, according to the Global Competitiveness Index, Israel is already a leader in innovation (6th in the world). Are there any untapped paths to economic growth?
Merav Arlozorov on Leapfrogging and the Economic Crisis
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged economic crisis, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrogging, Quality of Life on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In her op-ed in The Marker, Merav Arlozorov writes that the Ministry of Finance’s proposed economic stimulus plan is no more than just an ‘ok’ plan, arguing that it lacks vision and doesn’t promote Israel’s relative advantages. She anchors her argument with an interview with Reut President Gidi Grinstein who claims that Israel should [...]
Israel: Becoming a Leading Country in Quality of Life
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Israel 2028, Leapfrogging on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Jerusalem Post recently published an article reviewing ‘Israel 2028 – Vision and Strategy for Economy and Society in a Global World,’ a plan that aims to provide an answer to the lack of long term planning in Israel and turn it into one of the leading 10 – 15 countries in quality of life [...]

