Haim Shore

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Jan 27, 2025, 10:27 AM

Hamas and Nazi Terezin Camp – Find the Differences

On 25th of January, 2025, Hamas released four Israeli hostages (female soldiers abducted from their beds in a base in southern Israel on October 7th, 2023). The four women were forced to parade in the Palestine-Square of Gaza, to the...

Mar 12, 2023, 2:58 PM

Current Detoxification of Israeli Society

In Exodus (19:6), God calls upon His people: “You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”. Why should you become a holy nation, and how do you become a holy nation? The answer and prescription are delivered...

Sep 27, 2020, 11:29 AM

Quality Control and Review — Two Concepts Confused by Israel Supreme Court

"Quality" and "Conformance" are two basic concepts in quality-engineering. The quality of product/service is evaluated exclusively by their degree of conformance. Conformance to what? There are two distinct perspectives to judging conformance: "Conformance to Specifications"; "Conformance to Requirements". With the first, the...

Apr 28, 2019, 12:59 PM

The Significance of the New Mass-media News Model

In the good olden days, the cost for bringing “Reality” into our living room via mass-media news outlets fell mostly on government and partially on the consumer. Not anymore. The model for delivering news to the customer has fundamentally...

Jan 27, 2019, 10:30 AM

How Israel Transformed from a Land of Common Sense to a Bastion of Formalities

Back in 1993 I was a visiting professor on sabbatical at the then Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement of Wisconsin University, Madison (co-chaired at the time by the late George E. P. Box (1919-2013) and Soren Bisgaard (1951-2009))....

Jul 29, 2018, 1:10 PM

Personal Rebellion — Rebalancing ‘Judge’ and ‘King’

Personal rebellion is an attempt of the ego to destabilize current balance between “Judge” and “King”, or to restore a former balance that has been violated. The two basic concepts, “Judge” and “King”, essential for explaining and understanding personal rebellion,...

Feb 25, 2018, 11:22 AM

Micromanagement by the Unelected Judicial Branch of the Elected Executive Branch

Current attempts at imposing extreme moral standards on how an Israeli prime minister should behave is yet another attempt, in a long series of attempts, by the unelected officials of the judicial branch of Israel to impose moral standards...

Jun 15, 2017, 12:46 PM

How HP Printers are Designed for Perfection – A Lesson in Customer Quality to be Learned by Others

I own an HP printer, a most recent one that has appeared on the market lately. The printer is so designed that if any of its four cartridges (magenta, cyan, yellow and black) are depleted (not serviceable) the printer...

Dec 30, 2016, 10:47 AM

“Opening Hours”— In Israel and Abroad

“Opening Hours”, when we, Israelis, are getting service, is a phenomenon unique to the Start-up Nation, not to be seen or heard-of anywhere else in the world. To realize the existence of this unique phenomenon, we have assembled in this...

Dec 23, 2016, 10:56 AM

Fog Over Israel — World Disconnected (?)

The British phrase “Fog in Channel — Continent Cut Off" is well known though its true source, whether in WWII or earlier or later, is obscure (as I have learned from a simple search on the net). This decades-old phrase...

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About Me

Haim Shore has been a tenured full professor (retired, 2015) of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His research concentrates on quality and reliability engineering and on statistical modeling. He owns five academic degrees and has published seven books and over a hundred peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His most recent (published) research addressed statistical modeling, estimation and monitoring of surgery duration. Professor Shore personal blog: haimshoreblog.wordpress.com (reachable also via haimshore.blog).