Personal Social Services – 2005

15.12.2007

The challenge these services face is complex. The proportion of households, children, and elderly under the poverty line has been...

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  • Yaakov Kop

Financing the Israeli Healthcare System 1995-2005

14.12.2007

This paper examines what has happened in practice to the system over the years with emphasis on how these changes...

Immigrant Integration in the Social Security System

28.10.2007

The social welfare system is intended to insure a minimum standard of living for all members of society and particularly for...

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Partial Privatization of the Personal Social Services

15.08.2007

This is not a new phenomenon. Privatization has been happening at different levels and at different rates in many service...

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  • Yosef Katan

Privatizing Public Housing: A Change or a Continuation of Housing Policy

15.08.2007

Since then, the number of apartments in public housing has declined rapidly. In the year 2006, it was estimated that...

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  • Eliyah Werczberger

Reform in Immigrant Integration: The Move from Institutional Absorption to Direct Integration into the Community

15.08.2007

New immigrants began what was called a "direct integration track" into the community. More than one million immigrants were dealt...

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  • Elazar Leshem

Policy Towards Persons with Disabilities: From Social Legislation to Legislating Rights

15.08.2007

In general, policy and legislation can be divided into three main periods: From the establishment of the State until the...

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  • Arik Rimmerman Shirlee Avrami

A Safety Net Full of Holes: Changing Policy Towards Israel’s Social Assistance Program

15.08.2007

Despite the existence of social welfare programs that address the specific needs of various populations - the unemployed, people with disabilities,...

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