Jehuda Haddad

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Dec 14, 2021, 10:20 AM

A time for optimism with a modicum of vision

The crying need to develop the empty Negev on the one hand and to make available valuable and expensive land on the other hand, justifies the urgent move of the Intelligence army bases to the Negev, while disregarding the...

Oct 18, 2021, 1:25 PM

Needed: An emergency plan to let high-tech win

An student siting at a computer in the computer room at the Branco Weiss School. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

With a dire shortage of professionals, Israel must start tech education in kindergarten and bring in minorities to fuel the economy's growth engine

Jul 13, 2021, 2:39 PM

Bolstering Ashdod as an academic city should be a key government priority

In recent years, Ashdod has grown to become the sixth-largest city in Israel, having doubled its population within a space of two decades. The city’s development momentum coincides with impressive growth and progress in the quality of life and...

Oct 11, 2020, 1:58 PM

The PM’s ‘buy made-in-Israel’ initiative will backfire. Here’s the solution

Workers at a new Bamba factory of the Osem corporation in Kiryat Gat, on February 19, 2019. (Flash90)

Mandating preference for 'blue-and-white' goods will drive up prices. There is one approach that really will work: Increase work productivity

Jun 11, 2020, 4:25 PM

An opportunity for academia’s renewed growth

Academia found itself contending with the corona pandemic from a very low and lacking starting point, without hardly any of the up-to-date tools needed to deal with such a situation. The digital leap which this system so direly needed,...

May 7, 2020, 11:20 PM

The First to Pay the Price and the Last to Benefit – The Social and Geographic Periphery

The State of Israel has not been spared the severe effects of the corona virus. Not surprisingly, this crisis has spotlighted the fragility of the country’s human and social fabric. As always, the first to pay the price and...

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About Me

Prof. Jehuda Haddad is rector of the SCE Sami Shamoon College of Engineering.