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Glenn Yago

The author is senior director at the Jerusalem Institute’s Milken Innovation Center and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Graduate School of Business Administration.
Gadi Yarkoni, head of the Eshkol Regional Council, speaks at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting last year. Joint efforts of government entities, institutional bodies, philanthropy, and private investors will transition emergency aid into financial solutions, says the writer.

Can Israel rebuild faster? The financial roadmap to recovery - opinion

Post-war recovery requires more than emergency relief; It demands innovative financial solutions that can accelerate rebuilding while creating sustainable economic growth.

MARCH 18, 2025
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett, US President Joe Biden and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a reception at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow earlier this month.

Israel can also be Climate Innovation Nation - opinion

The challenge facing us is how to deliver cuts in emissions and simultaneously deliver economic incentives for everyone involved.

NOVEMBER 13, 2021
Illustrative photo of Israeli money

We need to rethink the citizen wealth fund – opinion

The politicization caused delays that made the fund miss its launch date because tax revenues from the natural gas projects hadn’t reached the trigger of NIS 1b.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

From Oslo to Bahrain

Zooming out of the conflict.

AUGUST 8, 2019
A PALESTINIAN PROTESTS the Bahrain summit

Keeping Israel’s tech mojo alive: Innovation for sustainable development

Israel’s growth exemplifies how ingenuity overcomes adversity

JANUARY 17, 2018
new 50 shekels

Teva’s collapse – Israel’s biotech recovery

Over the past two years, Teva lost $57b. of value, leaving it with a remaining market value of $19b. It owes about $35b.

DECEMBER 27, 2017
THE TEVA building in Jerusalem.

Beyond Hollywood: Reflections on the Jerusalem Film Festival

How did the Jews invent Hollywood, but fail to reinvent it in their homeland despite Israel’s historical ability to create narratives of meaning throughout history?

JULY 12, 2017
The Jerusalem Film Festival at the Sultan’s Pool

Fiscal balance

Each year, the public is treated to the spectacle of the city reaching out to the national government to help it settle its budget woes.

JULY 20, 2016
2014 property tax collection per capita