Dan Ben-David, at The Blogs

Mar 12, 2023, 9:43 AM

PART 2 OF 5

Government priorities pivoted in the 1970s. Israelis today are paying the price

Traffic jams on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, on December 2, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Traffic jams and packed hospitals are just two results of decades of placing sectoral interests above national ones

Mar 9, 2023, 1:16 PM

PART 1 OF 5

The unsustainable path of the start-up nation

Israelis take part in ongoing protests against controversial legal reforms being touted by the country's hard-right government, in Tel Aviv on February 25, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

For years, the economy has been like an engine running on just a few of its cylinders. The coalition's judicial overhaul risks exacerbating the strain

Mar 15, 2021, 4:40 PM

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Young Jewish girls eat at the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit center in Jerusalem. The organization serves over 1200 children under the poverty line hot lunch everyday, and distribute over 10 000 food packages to families before the Jewish holiday of Rosh ha Shana (New Years). September 27, 2011. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90

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About Me

Prof. Dan Ben-David heads the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research and is a Tel-Aviv University faculty member. Named 'Person of the Year' by Calcalist newspaper and included 3 times in the Haaretz-TheMarker newspaper’s annual list of Israel’s 100 most influential people. His academic research placed him among the ten most cited economists in Israel during the years 1990-2000. Ben-David has twice received Tel-Aviv University’s 'Best Teacher Award.'