http://www.icsep.org.il - The Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress

Commentary (education)

ICSEP Director Daniel Doron writes a bi-weekly Thursday column in The Jerusalem Post. He also contributes to other influential periodicals, such as The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and The Weekly Standard.

Tue 29 Apr 2008
Israel still doesn’t get economy
The New York Sun

Israel’s elites—especially the chattering classes in the press and the academy—are hostile to capitalism because our universities’ social sciences and liberal arts departments are dominated by post-modernist and neo-Marxist professors.

Ideas matter. Hostility to capitalism exacts a great price from the Israeli economy and from its hapless workers.

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Wed 17 Oct 2007
Getting beyond the teachers’ strike
The Jerusalem Post

Sun 17 Apr 2005
Here comes the counter-revolution
The Jerusalem Post

Fri 4 Feb 2005
Death of a salesman
The Jerusalem Post

Wed 5 Jan 2005
Dovrat Commission tinkers while education system burns
The Jerusalem Post

Activities (education)

For its target audiences—the policy-making community, high school & university students and new immigrants—ICSEP carries out an array of activities in the areas of policy work, education, publications, public exposure and media relations.

Speeches - Wed 27 Jun 2007
Remarks for the Merage Forum on Education
Speech by Daniel Doron to the Merage Forum

“Past reforms have focused on asking for more money for education,” ICSEP President Daniel Doron noted in his speech to the Merage Forum on education.

“This despite the fact that Israel is already spending the highest proportion of GDP on education in the West.

“Yet, despite a steady growth in expenditures, standards and achievements have shown little improvement; in fact they have further deteriorated.”

Read the entire speech.

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Speeches - Mon 25 Jun 2007
Opening Remarks at the Strategic Forums Sponsored by Paul Merage
Speech by Daniel Doron to the Strategic Forums Sponsored by Paul Merage

“Before I continue with my remarks, let me sound an optimistic note,” said Daniel Doron, ICSEP President, in his opening remarks to the Strategic Forums Sponsored by Paul Merage.

“You will hear voices say that attempts to reform Israel are futile, that you cannot initiate significant changes here.

“We know better.”

The high-powered conference was held to explore ways of encouraging Israeli high-tech to meet the serious challenges facing it and to continue flourishing.

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Memos - Wed 10 Aug 2005
Finance Ministry thanks ICSEP

After the financial market reform was ratified by the Knesset, the director general of the finance ministry wrote to ICSEP director Daniel Doron. “Thank you for the support and encouragement that you and your colleagues gave us throughout the process,” he wrote.

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