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A state in their image: Finance ministry officials are reshaping Israel’s scale of values

Blog - Will it be possible for Israel to be heard?
By Agata Peleszuk  |  03/06/2010
Israeli intervention to stop a flotilla with humanitarian aid from entering Gaza Strip without a prior control in Ashdod triggered off as much international anger as the last war with Hamas. The facts arithmetic - death of nine people, arrest and deportation of hundreds of foreigners (including Europeans), announcement...

A Letter from London – Sailing in stormy seas
By Antony Lerman  |  03/06/2010
For once, we cleared personal work schedules enough to carve out a 2-day break among the dreamy spires of Oxford during school half-term week. But from the crack of dawn on Monday I was completely preoccupied with the nightmare fallout from the Israeli naval commandos' interception of the flotilla of boats, which ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  03/06/2010
Just last week I was thinking, God, I have nothing to write about for next week. Maybe something funny about Israel tourists in Berlin? What have I done? How many times I heard the sentence "be careful with what you wish for, you might get it"? God, do I have a subject now. But I do not have the time to write...

A state in their image: Finance ministry officials are reshaping Israel’s scale of values
By Bambi Sheleg  |  03/06/2010
Israel is in the best economic state it has ever known. That, in any case, is what is shown by most of the indices according to which a country’s economic strength is measured today. We are receiving thunderous applause from the international ratings companies and the International Monetary Fund; the shekel has become ...

Dealing with Wealth
By Pinchas Landau  |  03/06/2010
What enabled the Israelis to take advantage of the tremendous change that transpired in the world at the end of the 20th century was the correct, wise and consistent policy that Israeli governments have followed from 1985 to this day. But the successes of the free market create tensions that it cannot alleviate, since ...

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