Behind Israel’s Middle Class Protest – Not Just a Gut Feeling
22.12.2012Spontaneous protests over economic conditions usually break out among disadvantaged populations, as occurred in Israel with the “Black Panther” riots...
- Taub Center Staff
The Privatization of Social Services in Israel: Considerations and Concerns
22.12.2012This chapter examines whether the statistical data supports this concern. The picture of the scope of social services that have...
- Reuben Gronau
The Cost of Social Welfare: Israel in Comparative Perspective
20.12.2012Compared to the five Western European countries included in this research, Israel’s public social expenditure is low, and in most...
- Michael Shalev Sagit Azary-Viesel John Gal
Reforming Foreign Worker Employment in Israel
14.12.2012This new arrangement authorized the hiring of foreign workers on a fixed-quota basis, subject to various fees and employment levies,...
- Yoram Ida
Israel’s Healthcare System
14.12.2012Rather than aiding the public part of the system to cope with the challenge, the State has exacerbated the situation...
- Dov Chernichovsky Eitan Regev
The Impact of the Expected Tax Rate Changes on the Middle Class
13.12.2012In light of the current budget situation, the Israeli government decided to raise the VAT by 1 percent as of...
- Ayal Kimhi Kyrill Shraberman
The Start-Up Nation’s Threat from Within
13.12.2012Three main vantage points are brought together in this chapter: (1) Israel’s relatively good economic performance in recent years –...
- Dan Ben-David
Changes in Labor Force Survey Data and Their Meaning
13.12.2012The change brought about some significant differences in the data. In particular, amongst Arab Israelis there was a dramatic jump...
- Eran Yashiv