>Hi Walter,
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>I almost fully agree with you. I doubt your point system, but even that might work.

That point system would be too much of a stick and too little carrot.

Maybe something along the "negative incentive" system I once met in a payroll app I wrote in Hungary: everyone would get a certain amount of money (which would contribute about 5-10% to the total salary) for showing up on time. For the month in which a guy would be late for work one, two or more times, he'd lose some or all of it.

I've heard (at the user's) that it worked great, even though it was actually a scam - the amount was simply set aside from the lump of the salary and treated as an add-on, so you could say it was actually working as a punishment. Nevertheless, the employees took it for its face value and treated it as "extra money you get for just coming regularly to work", as some sort of free money - and then didn't want to lose it.

I think Israel would have a huge success by diverting one of the 6 billion dollars it gets each year from the USA into development of infrastructure in the Palestine, and then cutting parts of it off for each incident. May work much better than military response.