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open-data
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A quarter of every box you buy is wall
Multiply a box's outside dimensions and you overstate what it holds by about a quarter — and by more for a tapered attached-lid container than a straight-walled Eurobox. So I built the dataset nobody publishes: 48 sizes, 121 vendor listings.
Israel's open data portal has no changelog, so I built one
Israel's open data portal publishes a catalogue but no changelog — there's no way to ask what's new. Its CKAN API turns out to carry enough history to reconstruct one: 1,197 datasets across 124 months, and what actually landed in the last few weeks.
An index of Israeli open-data projects
A point-in-time snapshot of Israeli open-data resources I've been tracking — government catalogues, scrapers, MCP servers, and downstream utilities, grouped by domain. Useful starting point if you're building anything against Israeli public data.
What Jerusalem's air looks like when it stops driving
A natural-experiment analysis of 12 months of hourly Jerusalem air-quality data, relabelled against exact halachic windows and benchmarked against London and New York. Findings, methods, and caveats.
Small ideas for Israel's home front, from inside the mamad
Thirteen small, practical ideas for improving Israel's home front alerting and public shelter system — covering the Pikud HaOref app, siren delivery, post-event guidance, mamad logistics, and the data and APIs that the whole ecosystem depends on.