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Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research

View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a strike, on May 4, 2025. Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
August 26, 2026, 6:04 am
Israeli teachers lag behind OECD peers in literacy, numeracy, problem-solving — study
Shoresh Institution highlights educators’ low skill level in science, technology, engineering, math; recommends teachers first get a degree in a discipline, then a teaching qualification
By Sue Surkes
Construction of new high rises in Ramat Gan, March 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 29, 2026, 11:26 am
Housing policy out of sync with shifting demand, especially for smaller homes, study finds
Research center says failure to account for growth of number of households driving prices out of reach, leaving more families in rentals, with major changes needed to address crisis
By Zev Stub
An entrepreneur checks his work calendar. (Moon Safari, at iStock by Getty Images)
December 10, 2025, 7:26 pm
As Israelis live longer, older Arabs, single women, lag behind on financial security
Study finds that 35% of Jewish men aged over 65 still work, but for Jewish women and Arab men that number drops to just 20%, while virtually no Arab women work at that age
By Sue Surkes
Farmers block the Bilu Junction as part of protests around the country against the finance and agriculture ministries plan to open up the fruit and vegetable market for import, on July 29, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 29, 2022, 2:52 pm
Allowing imports of fruit and vegetables likely to endanger food security – report
Likely suppliers Turkey, Egypt, Jordan less prepared for climate change, and potentially unstable and unreliable, says Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research
By Sue Surkes
An Israeli woman outside a distribution center for needy people in Lod, September 11, 2012. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2021, 11:35 pm
Minimum wage hikes in Israel benefit men more than women, think tank says
Salary increases for lowest wage earners contributed to gender gap in employment, with more women losing work, according to new study
By Luke Tress
Magen David Adom medical workers seen at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, alongside the security barrier outside Shuafat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, April 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 22, 2020, 10:21 pm
Test every single Israeli to avoid a second COVID-19 wave, top economist urges
Dan Ben-David of the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research says effort would be hard and costly, but worthwhile to avoid economic devastation of a new outbreak
By Nathan Jeffay and Shoshanna Solomon
The director of the epidemics service, Dr Karina Glick, checking a patient vital signs monitor at a ward, while wearing protective clothing, during a press presentation of the hospitalization service for future patients with coronavirus at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, on March 16, 2020, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)/
March 16, 2020, 8:15 pm
Think tank: Israel wouldn’t be grinding to halt if hospitals were better funded
Situation where government orders ever-increasing restrictions on public life to curb virus could have been avoided, says Shoresh Institution chief
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image of a man at an airport/travel (Chalabala; iStock by Getty Images)
June 5, 2019, 2:54 pm
Losing our best minds: Startup Nation sees brain drain, fall in productivity
For every graduate who returns to Israel, 4.5 emigrate; ‘exceptionally small’ number of people responsible for propelling the economy, report says; also warns of growing inequality
By Shoshanna Solomon
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