Inequality

Israel launches NIS 25 million initiative to close high-tech gender gap

This initiative is a response to persistent gender gaps in the high-tech industry, both in representation across technical and managerial positions and in salary levels. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli national flags flutter in front of an office tower at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020.
Dr. Gail Gilboa Freedman, Dean of the Faculty of Technology at Sapir Academic College.

Longevity: A mathematician’s perspective on society

"Longer life does not necessarily mean a better society"

|ByDR. GAIL GILBOA FREEDMAN, IN COLLABORATION WITH SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the Knesset plenum.

Israel cannot demand unity while governing inequality - opinion

Israel asks citizens to fight together, to sacrifice together, and to carry the weight of war and uncertainty together, and yet it governs them as if they are not equal partners in that burden.

|BySHMUEL LEGESSE
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is underdiagnosed in ultra-Orthodox and Arab-Israeli populations, according to Jerusalem Taub Center for Social Policy Studies.

Haredi, Arab children with autism face inequality and delay in diagnosis, study finds

The study found two types of inequality: both in the lower rate of children who receive formal diagnoses of being on the spectrum and in a critical delay in the age of diagnosis.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Taub report: Economic slowdown, high poverty and inequality in Israel in 2017

"A State of the Nation 2017," produced by the Taub Center, offers a snapshot of the socioeconomic condition of Israel in 2017.

DECEMBER 27, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
A homeless man lies on the street.