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2030: Alternative Futures for the Jewish People
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2030: Alternative Futures for the Jewish People

2030: Alternative Futures for the Jewish People, led by Ambassador Avi Gil and Dr. Einat Wilf , represents the efforts of the entire staff over the last six years under the guidance of Professor Yehezkel Dror, to confront the main challenges likely to face the Jewish People in the next 20 years. Together with JPPI’s Annual Assessments and other strategic…
01/01/2010
By: Avi Gil, Dr. Einat Wilf
Geopolitics

Dismantling Sectarian Cities of Refuge

Responsibility for combating crime is placed, first and foremost, on the various law enforcement authorities: the police, the prosecution, and the courts, which do much, but can still do more. However, in parallel, the onus to act against crime is on each and every citizen and community. How? A sample of four headlines that have besmirched our image recently include…
07/12/2009
The Triangular Relationship of Jerusalem, Washington, and the American Jewish community
Geopolitics

The Triangular Relationship of Jerusalem, Washington, and the American Jewish community

The Triangular Relationship of Jerusalem, Washington, and the American Jewish community is a primary focus of JPPI. The Institute convened, in October 2009 in Glen Cove, New York, a brainstorming conference on the subject.  The three papers in this publication were prepared and distributed to participants in advance of that conference, they include 2009 -- Change of Government in the USA…
01/10/2009
Geopolitics

Our False Apprehensions

On the surface, the Israeli marketplace of ideas crosses a very deep divide that splits us into two camps—"democrats" and "Jews." In practice, only a tiny fringe element objects to the state defining itself as "Jewish" and seeks "a state of all its citizens." Similarly, only a small, marginal group opposes a democratic state and favors an alternative vision, like…
28/06/2009
2008 Annual Assessment

2008 Annual Assessment

The 2008 Annual assessment — the fifth annual assessment — follows in the footsteps of its predecessors. Its overview of the preceding year in terms of geo-political, economic, social, and political developments internationally and in the Diaspora and in Israel is well done and insightful. Not surprisingly, it addresses the growth of Iranian leverage in the Middle East, the divisions…
01/03/2009

Gamblers in Disguise

The ongoing financial crisis, however, has confronted us with a very different reality: the people most engaged in calculation – whom we entrusted with the responsibility of managing every aspect of our lives, from retirement to natural disasters – acted systematically and persistently in a dangerous manner that eventually led to the collective suicide of some of the most established…
29/10/2008

Executive Salaries and the Financial Crisis

The initiative is in fact valid, in principle, from a capitalist point of view. One doesn't necessarily have to have socialist tendencies—although there is nothing wrong with those who do—in order to support salary caps for executives, only rational and realistic ones.According to Israeli corporate law, directorates and shareholders are responsible for overseeing executives and setting salary levels. But in…
26/10/2008
President’s Conference 2008 – Background Policy Documents
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President’s Conference 2008 – Background Policy Documents

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14/10/2008
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2007 Annual Assessment

2007 Annual Assessment

The 2007 Annual Assessment
10/10/2007
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