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Israel’s population: deceptively young

Israel is a leader in humane care for its elderly population, but expected demographic changes mean that careful planning will be required to sustain adequate care for the country’s aged.

Privatization of social services in Israel

As a result of privatization of social services in Israel, private spending is considerably higher and services are provided by workers in non-governmental social service agencies with substantially lower wages – with potentially commensurate reductions in service quality.

Gridlock on the roads and in Israel’s priorities

Israel’s transportation infrastructure is far behind that of similarly sized countries.  Closing the gaps will require much greater investment than the country is currently allocating.

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Recent Publications

State of the Nation in Pictures 2013

A book of pictures containing 66 readily accessible graphs and tables based  on Taub Center research – one per page, accompanied by a brief explanation.

From: Special Issues

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Implementation of the Compulsory Education Law for Ages 3-4: Challenges and Recommendations

Amongst the many recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee, the central one in the field of education was a call for the immediate implementation of the Compulsory Education Law for ages 3-4.  The work presents some suggestions that could reduce the expected costs significantly, as well as initial data on the implementation of the law thus far.

From: Discussion PapersEducation

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Taub Center Conference

Taub Center’s Health Conference

On Tuesday, November 20th 2012, the Taub Center held an international conference on “Financing Health care: Balancing Regulated Private Insurance and Public Funding”.

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Featured Publication

State of the Nation Report – Society, Economy and Policy 2011-2012

From: Periodicals 22 Nov 2012

The report provides a unique historical and international perspective of where Israel was, where it is now, and where it is headed – with some indication of the speed at which it is traveling and the implications and suggestions for a change of course.

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Data Sets

Download Data Sets by Subject

The center presents to the public electronic data sheets that contain categoriezed data