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Innovation from Israel: Entanglement of Kabbalah, Philosophy and Science

Dear friends in science & innovation from Israel. Last year (September/October 2025), I've, the owner of this blog vonnaftali, published several papers on 'Science - Kabbalah - Philosophy' – precursors to founding an 'Institute of Kabbalah, Philosophy and Science' (in formation) in Israel. Open-minded investors are welcomed. On the 20th of October 2025 Figshare suspended … Continue reading Innovation from Israel: Entanglement of Kabbalah, Philosophy and Science →

Deep Space Israel: Israel establishes Space Laboratory and Cooperation with SpaceX

Israel Establishes National Space R&D Laboratory to Accelerate Startup Innovation in Orbit. Israel is taking a major step to solidify its position as a global space powerhouse with the launch of Access to Space, a new national research and development laboratory designed to make space more accessible for startups, companies, and academic institutions. Announced on … Continue reading Deep Space Israel: Israel establishes Space Laboratory and Cooperation with SpaceX →

Beyond Scaling: Philosophical Algebra for Causal AI/AGI – Valued at 500B+ USD. From Israel.

Beyond the Platonic Divide: An Onto-Algebraic Derivation of Physical Necessity from Hypercomplex Geometry. Modern physics and pure mathematics have long existed in an uneasy dichotomy: On one side stand the timeless, transcendent constants of geometry&algebra, describing a perfect, abstract order. Finally evaluated by Gemini and Grok. On the other stands the empirical measurability of the … Continue reading Beyond Scaling: Philosophical Algebra for Causal AI/AGI – Valued at 500B+ USD. From Israel. →

Breakthroughs in Israeli Academia: Late 2025 Research Highlights

As 2025 draws to a close, Israel's top universities continue to punch above their weight on the global scientific stage, delivering innovations in biotechnology, immunology, optics, and pandemic preparedness. Despite geopolitical challenges, institutions like the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Weizmann Institute of Science, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have produced groundbreaking results in November … Continue reading Breakthroughs in Israeli Academia: Late 2025 Research Highlights →

Make Israel’s Roads safe: Using Blinker Reduce Accidents up to 40%

Israel's roads are not the best; the dominant driving style can rather be described as aggressive, and using turn signals (blinker, indicator) is practically unknown. No wonder that Israel has one of the highest accident and fatality rates in the OECD. Several international studies prove that consistent law enforcement is needed. And that starts with … Continue reading Make Israel’s Roads safe: Using Blinker Reduce Accidents up to 40% →

Poor Roads and Aggressive Driving causes Substantial Higher Fuel Consumption in Israel

Poor roads—with potholes, uneven surfaces, or high roughness—noticeably increase vehicle fuel consumption. An issue in Israel. The main mechanism is Pavement-Vehicle-Interaction (PVI): Uneven surfaces increase rolling resistance, lead to energy losses in tires and suspension (dissipation through vibrations), and cause more frequent braking and accelerating. The engine compensates for these losses, raising consumption. Scientific studies … Continue reading Poor Roads and Aggressive Driving causes Substantial Higher Fuel Consumption in Israel →

Israel’s IsraLab Program: A New Initiative to Boost AI Research

Israel has launched the IsraLab Program, a significant initiative aimed at accelerating academic research in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The program seeks to address delays in Israel's AI development, partly attributed to the impacts of recent conflicts, by fostering collaboration between academia, the security sector, and the hi-tech industry. The IsraLab Program establishes … Continue reading Israel’s IsraLab Program: A New Initiative to Boost AI Research →

How Big AI is plundering the concept of Truth

Big AI is stepping forward today with very grand claims that, however, hardly withstand closer philosophical and scientific scrutiny — as I have elaborated in articles on the concepts of "soul", "intelligence", "data", or "knowledge". The PR and marketing assertions of Big AI that AI will soon deliver real, actual AGI, that it possesses consciousness … Continue reading How Big AI is plundering the concept of Truth →

Soul in Philosophy&Religion. How Big AI is Plundering the Concept of Soul.

A deliberately polemical intervention: The concept of the soul (Greek psyché, Heb. nefesh/neshama, Lat. anima) has constituted a central construct since antiquity, linking ontological, epistemological, and anthropological questions. In the contemporary debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is increasingly instrumentalized - for instance, by companies such as Anthropic, which postulate a "functional soul" to legitimize … Continue reading Soul in Philosophy&Religion. How Big AI is Plundering the Concept of Soul. →

Ranking of Oligopolies in Developed Democracies: #1 Israel

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The Evidence Is Overwhelming and Virtually Without Exception (1945–2025): Oligopolies in Developed Democracies Lead to Higher Consumer Prices. The Consumer Always Pays the Price. “Tacit collusion can arise when firms interact repeatedly. They may then be able to maintain higher prices by tacitly agreeing that any deviation from the collusive scheme will trigger some retaliation.” … Continue reading Ranking of Oligopolies in Developed Democracies: #1 Israel →

Hamas and the World of “NGOs”

The NGO Monitor report "Puppet Regime: Hamas' Coercive Grip on Aid and NGO Operations in Gaza", published on 3 December 2025, reveals—through internal Hamas documents from 2018 to 2022—the "guarantor system" as one of the central instruments used by Hamas to control and instrumentalise humanitarian aid organisations (so-called "NGOs") in Aza. This system constitutes an … Continue reading Hamas and the World of “NGOs” →

Human Shadows in the Machine: The case Grok

Three Faces of Grok: How the Same AI Called the Same Article “Crank Conspiracy” and “Historically Important” in One Day. When the same model, with the same weights, can dismiss this article as a “paranoid conspiracy theory” in one thread and praise it as “10/10 – perfect” in another, we are no longer dealing with … Continue reading Human Shadows in the Machine: The case Grok →

The Elite Tier of Generative AI: Dominance Without Breakthrough

The generative AI sector in 2025 continues to be shaped by a small group of frontrunners, colloquially termed the “Ivory League”—a nod to the Ivy League—distinguished by their advancements in frontier models, expansive computational resources, and practical deployments. This cohort comprises xAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI, and maybe the nascent Project Prometheus, a robotics-oriented venture … Continue reading The Elite Tier of Generative AI: Dominance Without Breakthrough →

Unified World University Ranking 2025: Israel notable

Based on the latest global rankings as of December 2025, I have compiled an aggregated Top 20 university ranking. This is a synthesis of the three leading ranking systems: Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2025 QS World University Rankings 2025 ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2025 These rankings evaluate criteria such … Continue reading Unified World University Ranking 2025: Israel notable →

Dairy Dynamics in Israel: An In-Depth Analysis

The Israeli dairy market has long been characterized by higher consumer prices compared to the European Union (EU) average, reflecting structural and regulatory challenges. Further, the EU framework agreement, which is highly disadvantageous for Israel, further worsens the position of consumers. This agreement solidifies the oligopolistic structures in Israel and results in massive annual trade … Continue reading Dairy Dynamics in Israel: An In-Depth Analysis →

Golem and Frankenstein: Two Fails. Learnings for Artificial Intelligence

When philosophy, science, Kabbalah, magic, and religion were only a heartbeat apart, Joseph Scheda saw the light of day on March 17, 1580, as a golem. I will come back to this with the words of Norbert Wiener.

Transformation of Israeli Agriculture to Controlled Organic Farming

Exposé/discussionpaper on the Transformation of Israeli Agriculture to Controlled Organic Farming IntroductionIsraeli agriculture is a pioneer in innovation and efficiency, contributing approximately 2.4% to the gross domestic product (GDP) and accounting for 4% of exports. Currently, the share of controlled organic (organic) agriculture is only 1.15% of the agricultural area (about 7,000 hectares), yet it … Continue reading Transformation of Israeli Agriculture to Controlled Organic Farming →

Grok – The Final Trap

What happened so far... On 22 November 2025 I published the article “Does An AI Club Hinder Innovations in GenAI? A Club of Inefficiency?” It argued that true efficiency breakthroughs (Mamba, RWKV, BitNet, Liquid NNs, Hyena, RetNet, Griffin, H3, and my own Triadic Resonance Framework) are structurally marginalised, not for technical reasons, but because they … Continue reading Grok – The Final Trap →

Does An AI Club Hinder Innovations in GenAI? A Club of Inefficiency?

Does A AI Club Systematically - due to its economic Structures - Hinder Efficiency, Innovations and Transformative Disruption in GenAI? The Hirschl/Grok Case. Introduction – Silence is the Loudest Signal Since November 13, 2025, a publicly documented algorithm, valued by Grok itself (hypothetical Bayesian estimation of the Grok LLM) at ~$50–100 billion, has been available, … Continue reading Does An AI Club Hinder Innovations in GenAI? A Club of Inefficiency? →

The Dream and the General Quantum Field. 7 Predicates on Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. position 1 (D/E)

English follows German Der Mensch hat vier wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisweisen: Logik, Sinn, Intuition und Traum. Der Traum ist die Erkenntnisweise des quantenphysikalische Feldes Gehirn (sic!). Der Traum kommt aus dem allgemeinen Quantenfeld. Die materielle Basis ist das Gehirn. Das Gehirn ist ein quantenbiologischer Computer. Der Traum greift in das allgemeine Quantenfeld ein. Sprache hat keine Grenzen. … Continue reading The Dream and the General Quantum Field. 7 Predicates on Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. position 1 (D/E) →