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.

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.”

A government that interferes in everything is a disorganized government, and disorganization provides great opportunities for corruption.

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.