Publications

What will Israeli society look like in 2025? What developments will it experience between now and then? Will it manage to overcome the profound rifts that characterize it today? And if not, what options for its future are available to the State of Israel?

The concept of housing affordability refers to the ability of households and individuals to have a quality, stable roof over their head at a price that is reasonable for their income.

Ahead of the 2023 Givat Haviva Conference for a Shared Society, a joint survey was conducted for Givat Haviva and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung under the supervision of Dr. Nohad Ali from the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion and a lecturer at the Western Galilee Academic College among interviewees from the Jewish and Arab communities. The goal of the survey was to get an up-to-date…

Affirmative Squatting, Clarice Harboun's groundbreaking book reframes the concept of "invasion" from a criminal legal category to "affirmative squatting", thereby placing the actions of Mizrahi women against eviction from their homes in an alternative framework of the struggle for equality.

By applying a phase model for the renewables-based energy transition in the MENA countries to Israel, the study provides a guiding vision to support the strategy development and steering of the energy transition process. The transition towards a renewable-based energy system can reduce import dependencies and increase the energy security in Israel.

This document was written by the Mossawa Center in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung based on information gathered from other organizations and from local councils in preparation for the approval of the State budget for the years 2021-2022 and the new five-year plan for closing the gaps in the financing of services in Arab localities in the years 2022-2026 (government decision 550).

Students’ podcast project

The document presents data on some aspects of inequality in Israel during the corona period. It first focuses on three defined population groups: the upper class, the high-tech workers and the small businesses.

The Corona crisis began as a health crisis, but it revealed the weaknesses of Israel’s social, economic, and political systems as well. It found a political system entirely devoid of gender sensitivity. Thus, the decisions made, mainly by men, failed to reflect the needs of women. Moreover, the services essential to coping with the epidemic were under-budgeted and under-staffed. What’s more, the epidemic spotlighted the…