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Israel
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.
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
Smolka, G., Kosatica, E., Berger, M., Kissinger, M., Fridman, D. , & Koellner, T. (2023). Domestic water versus imported virtual blue water for agricultural production: A comparison based on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Industrial Ecology 10.1111/jiec.13403. (In Press)
Huber, F., Krisztin, T. , & Pfarrhofer, M. (2023). A Bayesian panel vector autoregression to analyze the impact of climate shocks on high-income economies. The Annals of Applied Statistics 17 (2) 1543-1573. 10.1214/22-AOAS1681.
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 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.04.033. (In Press)
Eker, S. , Mastrucci, A. , Pachauri, S. , & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Social media data shed light on air-conditioning interest of heat-vulnerable regions and sociodemographic groups. One Earth 6 (4) 428-440. 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.011.
Komendantova, N. , Erokhin, D., Rovenskaya, E. , Dallo, I., Fallou, L., Rapaport, C., Vicari, R., & Yosipof, A. (2023). Contribution to the Global Digital Compact: “Digital commons as a global public good. Internet as a free space, and methods for combating the spread of disinformation and misinformation.”. IIASA Report. Laxenburg: IIASA
Yosipof, A., Woo, G., & Komendantova, N. (2023). Persistence of Risk Awareness: Manchester Area Bombing on 22 May 2017. SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4393992. (Submitted)