Bibi Netanyahu’s Incredibly Simple Basic Approach

Today I decided at last to have a look at Bibi Netanyahu’s blog, whose existence I know about for a while.
The blog is written in Hebrew.
He considers the problems of the Israeli educational system, which has been deteriorating for several years by now.
His suggestion – apply the same basic approach, which he successfully applied when he was Minister of Finance and got the Israeli economy to improve in a big way.
What basic approach?
Find which countries have the most successful policies (then – economics, now – educational). Then learn from their experience.
All the rest are mere details.

This approach is also politically feasible:

• It is easier to sell a new policy to other politicians and to the constituency if you show that it worked beautifully in country A and country B.
• In the specific case of the educational system, the solution is to get better people in, less suitable people out. Fortunately, it is not so difficult to do so in time scale of 10 years, thanks to the big employee turnover in the system.

Author: Omer Zak

I am deaf since birth. I played with big computers which eat punched cards and spew out printouts since age 12. Ever since they became available, I work and play with desktop size computers which eat keyboard keypresses and spew out display pixels. Among other things, I developed software which helped the deaf in Israel use the telephone network, by means of home computers equipped with modems. Several years later, I developed Hebrew localizations for some cellular phones, which helped the deaf in Israel utilize the cellular phone networks. I am interested in entrepreneurship, Science Fiction and making the world more accessible to people with disabilities. View all posts by Omer Zak