Formulating Welfare Policy in Israel, 2000-2005

Among the principle factors were:

• the political ideological changes in the years 2000-2005;
• the radical change in the welfare system;
• organizational changes in the welfare system itself that have been instituted in the past few years;
• programmatic changes that were introduced in many welfare programs with the purpose of changing the long-term characteristics and basis of these programs;
• and, the wide-ranging state initiated cutbacks in the majority of social programs and social safety net.

This paper appears as a chapter in the book Formulating Social Policy in Israel, Uri Aviram, Johnny Gal and Yosef Katan (editors).

This paper is in Hebrew only.