A Comprehensive Program for Reducing Inequality and Poverty and Increasing Economic Growth in Israel

Editor: Dan Ben-David, published under Special Issues
a14 May 2009

The underlying social and economic foundations upon which Israel’s national security is based have been steadily deteriorating over the past three decades. During the early years of the State, there was no doubt as to the source of the clear and present danger confronting us. But in subsequent decades, a number of socio-economic trends have gradually begun to develop that are slowly but surely disintegrating the basic fabric of Israel’s society and the economy.

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Keywords

• Economics,
• Education,
• Health,
• inequality,
• social policy,
• social welfare,
• transfer allowances

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