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Israel Still Doesn’t Get Economy
Originally published 29 Apr 2008 in
The New York Sun
Why are Israel elites, especially the chattering classes in the press and the academy and such, and also those in business, so hostile to capitalism?
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US Charity to Israel Reconsidered
Originally published 2 Apr 2008 in
inFocus
Jewish institutional efforts must now undergo a period of reform and greater accountability. Some charitable efforts should be privatized. Individuals or groups of donors must take personal responsibility for specific projects, to ensure that funds are dispensed in a responsible and cost effective manner.
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Israel’s No-Win Strategy
Originally published 8 Mar 2008 in
The Wall Street Journal
Israeli politicians are preoccupied with political machinations designed to buy support from powerful interest groups by distributing government largesse. This causes not only the factionalization of politics and growing corruption, but consumes time and energy that leadership should use to address life and death issues.
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A president of visions
Originally published 18 Jul 2007 in
The Jerusalem Post
President Shimon Peres, we all know, is a man of visions. Some have been better than others. The less successful ones, that translated into costly, failing and even dangerous policies, were those that denied reality.
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Theodor Herzl’s vision betrayed
Originally published 21 May 2007 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Herzl at Basel, the iconic image. From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
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What a tragedy that Theodor Herzl’s successors, especially Israel’s first president Chaim Weizmann and his socialist allies, deserted Herzl’s plan to build a Jewish national home in which a prosperous market economy would guarantee its social cohesion and political strength.
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