With the COVID-19 pandemic creating unprecedented health, economic, and social challenges that are best solved by cutting-edge technologies and the entrepreneurs behind them, the present day should represent a defining moment for Israel’s “start-up nation” identity. Indeed, it is — but not in the way conventional wisdom would dictate. At this time when the innovative strands...

A late-July report from Israeli Advanced Technology Industries and KamaTech, which revealed a 52% increase in Torah-observant workers in Israel’s high tech sector since 2014 and a 90% surge in Haredi women employed in high tech, provided a natural cause for optimism regarding the Jewish state’s longstanding tensions on the issue of Haredi employment. At...

“It’s a noble profession.” The speaker is Prof. Kenneth J. Hochberg, rector of the Jerusalem College of Technology. Hochberg, while undoubtedly proud of his school’s renowned engineering and computer tracks, is referring to one of JCT’s newest programs – its male nursing program, which opened in 2014, and which has attracted religious men throughout the country to...

Despite the pervasive political discord in Israel ahead of the country’s third election in the span of one year, there is one issue that most Israelis can and should get behind: That the ultra-Orthodox education system needs to incorporate math and science into its curriculum from an early age. Historically reluctant to implement a core curriculum...

Bank of Israel warns ultra-Orthodox education deficiencies will impact the economy’s ability to grow. In a special report published Sunday the Bank of Israel looked at advancing the standard of living by increasing Israel’s productivity and determined that ultra-Orthodox men are under educated. According to the report there has been since the 1970s, a decline...