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Van Leer Institute: Reduce the Price of Water that Corporations Charge / Adrian Filut, Calcalist 20/11/2017 (Hebrew)
A position paper to be presented today determines that water prices should be reduced by 5%-8% immediately,...
Water Corporations – Leave Politics Alone / Moshe Ben Atar, Haaretz Blogs 27/11/2017 (Hebrew)
Bear in mind that the corporations do not set water prices, there are no more water cutoffs, and there is no...
The Wisconsin Plan Returns Under a Different Name / Rami Adut, The Marker 8/11/2017 (Hebrew)
How is the "Cycles of Employment" program evaluated? Is only reducing the stipends considered success – or...
Israel: Regulation ‘Regressing' Under Business, Political Influence / Jenny David, Bloomberg BNA 5/4/2017 (English)
Economic interests clash with social interests and often win, and the Israeli regulatory environment is “...
The Solution Is the Problem: Why Regulation of the Media is Faulty and Why No Improvement Is Under Way / Oren Persico, The Seventh Eye 12/4/2017 (Hebrew)
The failure of the regulation of the Israeli media, and in particular the failure of the Second Authority for...
Too Much or Too Little Regulation? / Eyal Tevet, Walla News 18/3/2017 (Hebrew)
A study by the Chazan Center at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute examined the question of whether Israel...
Friendly Captivity: Is the Second Authority a Regulatory Captive of the Interests of Channel 10? / Kol HaAyin, The Seventh Eye 15/3/2017 (Hebrew)
Dr. Sharon Yadin has investigated the regulatory treatment of Channel 10: "There are still many people who...
Dr. Sharon Yadin on Regulatory Failures of the Second Authority in Relation to Channel 10 / Kol HaAyin, The Seventh Eye 13/3/2017 (Hebrew)
Dr. Sharon Yadin, a senior lecturer at the Peres Academic Center law school and researcher at Van Leer...
Who's Afraid of Regulation? An Interview with Prof. Itzhak Galnoor / Moshe Negbi, Din uDvarim, Reshet Bet 12/3/2017 (Hebrew)
Does Israel actually suffer from excess regulation, bureaucracy and juridicalization? Perhaps it suffers from...
Let the Government Lead: The Privatization of the Public Service has Stripped it of its Capability / Ofer Sitbon, The Marker Opinion 28/9/2016
Meirav Arlosoroff has recently (The Marker 8 September) exposed the new government report on "improving the...
Are There Things That Should Not Be Privatized? A Conversation with Rami Adut from the Chazan Center / Seder Yom with Keren Neubach, Reshet Bet 15/9/2016 (Hebrew)
For the first time ever, the Israeli government has conducted a self-examination with regard to the...
Our Children's Health is being Privatized / Rami Adut, The Marker 3/8/2016 (Hebrew)
It's time for a series of measures that require judgement with respect to any public service which may be...
School Nurses: We’re Calling It Quits / David Peretz, Haaretz "You Deserve" Supplement 31/7/2016 (Hebrew)
On September 1 the nurses will not show up at school. The reason: "Gentlemen, one does not privatize children...
The Sickly School Health Service / Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post 31/7/2016 English
The failed privatization of pupils' health care was carried out by the Treasury with Health Ministry...
Warning: The Upcoming School Year will Open without Nurses in the Schools / Orit A. Brown, Maariv 19/7/2016 (Hebrew)
The threat was raised at a conference on privatization of the Health Service for the Schoolchild and Tipat...
School Nurses Announce Intention to Strike / Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post 21/7/2016 English
The nurses are protesting the fact that the Health Ministry reportedly has no intention of carrying out its...
Abolish Political Appointments / Itzhak Galnoor, Haaretz 12/4/2016 (Hebrew)
There have been successful political appointments, but they are the exception. Generally these are bad...
Privatization of Driving Tests May Shorten the Waiting List, but is Liable to Put Lives in Danger / Varda Shiffer, The Marker 10/4/2016 (Hebrew)
Is it not crucial for the State to take responsibility for its citizens’ driving expertise – a skill with...
The Owners Won the Lottery / Amiram Barkat, Globes 31/3/2016 (Hebrew)
Is privatization of government companies good for the economy, the employees and the society? ICL as a test...
The Battle about the Data Repository / Yonatan Reich, Hamevaser 18/3/2016 (Hebrew)
The credit database program, approved this week by the Economic Committee before being passed as legislation...
A Bill to Change Privatization Policy in Israel / M. Green, Yated Ne'eman 18/3/2016 (Hebrew)
The bill proposes ways to settle the dispute between supporters and opponents of privatization, to work out...
Bill: To Require the State to Justify Any Privatization Plan in Advance / Shay Niv, Globes 16/3/2016 (Hebrew)
According to the bill initiated by the opposition leader and the chairman of the Finance Committee, the state...
Herzog and Gafni Propose: A Law Requiring Full Transparency in Privatization / Omri Milman, Calcalist 16/3/2016
Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist camp) and the Finance Committee chairman Moshe Gafni (United Torah...
Dramatic Change in the Loan Market – a National Credit Database is Under Way / Tomer Varon, Galatz 14/3/2016 (Hebrew)
Aside from your familiar identity card, as of today you receive an additional one at the bank: a huge...
On "Breaking the Silence" and the Deterioration of Democracy at a Conference of the Chazan Center and the Van Leer Center for Jewish-Arab Relations / Amnon Portugali, Black Labor website 7/2/2016 (Hebrew)
I attended the conference "Should the Silence Breakers Be Broken" of the Chazan Center and the Van Leer...
Breaking the Silence: Anthropological Experiences from an Uneasy Evening / Asher Cohen, Facebook 3/2/2016 (Hebrew)
It was clear from the outset that it will be a conference supportive of "Breaking the Silence," to which...
Days of Llies and Deceit: The Greatest Mouth Shutters Continue to Be Considered "The Democratic Camp" / Kalman Liebskind, Maariv 6/2/2016 (Hebrew)
Once it's Im Tirtzu, once it's Miri Regev, and once even Ilana Dayan. It's the same pattern, only the names...
We’re Calling It Quits / Dror Eidar, Israel Today 5.2.2016 (Hebrew)
The Left make their position on democracy clear – if they themselves are not in power, democracy is just a...
Former Head of the Civil Service Commission Supports Civil Disobedience / Michael Tuchfeld, nrg 3/2/2016 (Hebrew)
Former Head of the Civil Service Commission, Prof. Itzhak Galnoor, admitted at a conference at the Van Leer...
A Call to the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Israel: Stop the Establishment of the National Credit Data Repository / Yeshaya Weiss, Hamodia 26/1/2016 (Hebrew)
The Center for Social Justice and Democracy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute cautions: The database will...
The Chazan Center to the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Israel: Stop the Process of Establishing the Credit Data Repository in the Bank of Israel / Moti Bassok, The Marker 19/1/2016
The Center for Social Justice and Democracy in Memory of Yaacov Chazan at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute...
"No Chance to Export the Gas" / EnergiaNews 29/11/2015
The researcher Amnon Portugali from the Van Leer Institute claims there is no real chance to export the gas...
The gas returns to the Knesset / Guy Ben Simon, Bizportal 17/10/2015 (Hebrew)
"The battle was decided the moment al-Sisi was elected – there is no one to sell the gas to." A Van Leer...
Does Every Privatization Contribute to Economy and Society? / Haim Bior, Haaretz books 14/10/2015 (Hebrew)
"Privatization Policy in Israel," which deals with one of the reforms which affect us the most, dares ask if...
Privatization Policy in Israel: One Step Too Far? / Michael Levy, Funder online 14/10/2015 (Hebrew)
Hundreds of large-scale privatizations with far reaching socioeconomic implications have been performed in...
Women and Minorities Suffered More from Privatization / Haim Bior, The Marker, 1.10.2015 (Hebrew)
Israel's privatization policy has affected society and the economy more than any other reform. Has its impact...