Ze’ela Kotler Hadari

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Ze’ela Kotler Hadari

A decade since the protest: Israel’s housing crisis goes from bad to worse

Waiting lists of up to 10 years. 900 uninhabitable apartments and more than 1,500 units simply abandoned by the authorities. Huge disparities between apartments in popular towns in the center of the country and those in far-flung places in the south. And more than 30,000 people waiting for a solution. A special Shomrim report into the ever-growing crisis in Israel’s public housing sector

August 17, 2021

Three months with the troll hunters detoxifying social media

Social networks have been at the mercy of a global industry of lies for years, with fake profiles serving as so-called super-spreaders for special-interest groups and authoritarian regimes. An Israeli activist collective is trying to clean things up

December 3, 2020

The political turmoil: Even the laws have become temporary

Of the 74 laws enacted by the Knesset in the eight months since it was sworn in, no fewer than 50 are temporary provisions. How does it work and why should it trouble us?

November 2, 2020

Israelis kept in the dark on potential COVID beaters

A new report confirms: vitamin D can help in the fight against COVID-19, but Local health authorities haven’t bothered to keep the public informed

October 14, 2020

The NGO Crisis: "We haven’t received any funding, not even one shekel"

While other countries have found creative ways to assist, in Israel the third sector is on the brink of collapse

April 27, 2020

NGOs are collapsing: “This is a national disaster that has come to our doorstep”

There is no one to fill this vacuum. More than 3,000 NGOs have already ceased operations and others are on the verge of shutting down, but the number of people who need to avail themselves of these services is greater than ever. The corona crisis is threatening to destroy the third sector, and the state is in denial.

April 3, 2020

A failing grade for Israel’s outsourced education system

Israel’s education system, which relies heavily on the third sector, suffered traumatic blow this month

August 5, 2020

Blowing in the wind

Despite its reputation as “the most monitored area in the world” and a much-vaunted network of measuring stations, residents and experts claim that little is known about the concentration of air pollutants – including dangerous carcinogens like benzene – in the Haifa Bay area. Meanwhile, huge sums of money are spent monitoring pollutants that no longer pose a major threat. An investigative report into mismanagement and under-monitoring in Israel's national air-quality network

July 14, 2020

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