The paper focuses on the quantitative analysis of Israeli Government's targets of 10% renewable energy penetration by 2020 and determining the desired methodology (models) for assessing the effects on the electricity market, addressing the fact that Israel is an electricity island. The main objective is to determine the influence of achieving the Government's goals for renewable energy penetrat...

The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Information Project with Federation American Scientists, Matt Korda, a senior research associate project. column has been published in Bulletin Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s examines Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which we estimate includes stockpile roughly 90 warheads. Israel neither officially confi...

We show how to extend the RNC-algorithm for maximal match-ings due to Israeli-Itai (presented in 5]) to compute maximal (with respect to set of edges inclusion) f-matchings. Our algorithm works in O(log 2 n) time on an arbitrary Crcw Pram with a linear number of processors. Also we slightly improve a constant coeecient in the analysis of the Israeli-Itai algorithm. Finally we present more eecie...

The 1993 and 1995 Oslo accords resulted in the classification of the West Bank into three zones, referred to as Areas A, B and C. Area A is under Palestinian civil and security authority; Area B is under the Palestinian Authority while security responsibilities are shared by both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities. Area C which comprises around 60 percent of the West Bank is under Isra...

Terror attacks in Israel produce a temporary lull in light accidents followed by a 35% spike in fatal accidents on Israeli roads 3 days after the attack. Our results are based on time-series analysis of Israeli traffic flows, accidents, and terror attacks from January 2001 through June 2002. Whereas prior studies have focused on subjective reports of posttraumatic stress, our study shows a popu...