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The Israel Committee for IIASA, which is made up of representatives from Israeli universities, government ministries and the public, represents the Israeli membership of IIASA.
Main areas of collaborations:
Challenges and opportunities of renewable energy in Israel
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Israel and the Mediterranean region
Water management in Israel
Projecting demographic change in Israel
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News
05 September 2022
Lessons learned from COVID-19 mitigation measures
Due to the uncertainty of the timing of vaccine approval at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers struggled to find the best mitigation measures. In a new study, researchers analyzed how the expectation of a vaccine influences optimal lockdown measures.
Events
11 July 2023 Archimedes Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Workshop on MESSAGEix and GAINS models at the new Archimedes Center
28 November 2022 Tel Aviv, Israel
IIASA-Israel Symposium on Sustainability Pathways empowered by Systems Analysis
27 April 2022 Virtual event
IIASA and Israel Workshop on Integrated assessment and energy modeling
Focus
04 December 2022
Celebrating 50 years of global collaboration
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA organized a series of celebratory activities with its member organizations throughout 2022 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking systems analysis research and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with the global scientific community.
17 June 2021
Where are they now: Ayelet Davidovitch
Options Magazine, Summer 2021: Ayelet Davidovitch was a postdoc in the IIASA-Israel Program from 2018 to 2019.
18 June 2020
Modeling Israel’s energy future
Options Summer 2020: Researchers from IIASA and Israel have customized the IIASA MESSAGE and GLOBIOM models to Israel’s unique context, to provide Israeli policymakers with useful options and analyses as they plan for the future.
Publications
Caulkins, J.P., Grass, D., Feichtinger, G., Hartl, R.F., Kort, P.M., Kuhn, M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sanchez-Romero, M., Seidl, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2023). The hammer and the jab: Are COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccinations complements or substitutes? European Journal of Operational Research 311 (1) 233-250. 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.04.033. Lutz, W. & Pachauri, S. (2023). Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 years of IIASA research, 40 years after the Brundtland Commission, contributing to the post-2030 Global Agenda. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 10.5281/zenodo.8214208. Ru, M., Shindell, D., Spadaro, J., Lamarque, J.-F., Challapalli, A., Wagner, F. , & Kiesewetter, G. (2023). New concentration-response functions for seven morbidity endpoints associated with short-term PM2.5 exposure and their implications for health impact assessment. Environment International 179 e108122. 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108122. Dallo, I., Elroy, O., Fallou, L., Komendantova, N. , & Yosipof, A. (2023). Dynamics and characteristics of misinformation related to earthquake predictions on Twitter. Scientific Reports 13 (1) e13391. 10.1038/s41598-023-40399-9. Chen, S., Kuhn, M., Prettner, K., Yu, F., Yang, T., Bärnighausen, T., Bloom, D.E, & Wang, C. (2023). The global economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for 204 countries and territories in 2020–50: a health-augmented macroeconomic modelling study. The Lancet Global Health 11 (8) 1183-1193. 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00217-6. Yosipof, A., Woo, G., & Komendantova, N. (2023). Persistence of Risk Awareness: Manchester Area Bombing on 22 May 2017. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction e103805. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103805. (In Press)