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One on One: Market values
Originally published 29 Mar 2007 in The Jerusalem Post

	Daniel Doron, ICSEP President

ICSEP President Daniel Doron is interviewed by fellow Jerusalem Post contributor Ruthie Blum. One quip: “The wages of labor are a function of supply and demand, not of the size of the mustache of a union leader.”

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Rush of brilliance
Originally published 7 Feb 2007 in The Jerusalem Post

In seven years, the Herzliya Conference has expanded so widely that its focus is becoming blurred, its messages buried under an avalanche of sessions and speakers – not all useful.

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Milton Friedman and Israel
Originally published 13 Dec 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

Friedman was puzzled by the allure socialism held for so many Jewish intellectuals since it was capitalism that enabled Jews in Europe to survive the Dark Ages then since Enlightenment prosper.

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For a second war of independence
Originally published 30 Aug 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

The reservists’ protest against the Lebanon fiasco could contribute to a politically, economically and socially healthier Israel. If that happens Lebanon II will be remembered as our “second war of independence”, a true war of liberation from a corrupting system which threatens our future existence.

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It’s capitalism’s fault - again
Originally published 17 Aug 2006 in The Jerusalem Post

Since it was advanced by Ari Shavit, Haaretz’s leading columnist, the capitalist guilt argument cannot be dismissed as yet another mindless expression of the anti-capitalist mentality so prevalent among Israel’s left-leaning elites. By discarding Israel’s nationalist and collectivist ethos and replacing it with an individualist anti-patriotic lore, he says, Israel’s elites robbed the nation of its ability to survive in the Middle Eastern jungle.

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