In order to encourage a public debate on the need to establish a new social contract, that will regulate the relations between Government and citizens, and on the approach towards inclussive growth and comuunity building, we travelled across Israel to meet individuals and communities. To date, we have led and taken part in more than [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel 15’
The New Social Contract – A Trans-Israel Journey
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Impact, inclusive growth, inclusiveness, Israel 15 on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Growth encouragement and workers’ rights – are they compatible?
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged employment policy, flexicurity, Israel 15, labor market policy on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The CEO of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor recently mentioned a dilemma which characterizes the Ministry’s work: “Does our will to encourage the economy fit in with our will to protect workers?” Even raising the question signifies a mindset that perceives a conflict between encouraging growth and the protection of workers’ rights. This [...]
Training for the global market
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged flexicurity, Human capital, Israel 15, Labor Market on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recently published decision, by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor announces the beginning of a new program rewarding employers who train new employees. The employers, in return for the subsidy, would help these employees earn a professional diploma.
Learning about the EU Flexicurity approach
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged flexicurity, Israel 15, labor market policy, leapfrog in quality of life on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reut team recently came back from a study visit to the EU in which we meet with officials and EU social partners regarding the Flexicurity approach.
Standardization and Legislation as an Essential Component of Leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Institutions, Israel 15, ISRAEL 15 Vision on June 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In a document that describes the principles and guidelines for achieving an economic and social leapfrog in Israel, the Reut Institute claims that decision makers in the public sphere should establish rules of conduct that will reflect values that may promote leapfrogging, such as business ethics and social awareness. The lack of standardization and legislation [...]
Reut’s 2009 Annual ISRAEL 15 Conference – Harnessing the Community for a Social and Economic Leapfrog
Posted in About Reut, ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Israel 15, israel 15 community, ISRAEL 15 Vision, socio-economic leapfrogging on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week Reut hosted the annual ISRAEL 15 Conference. Some 600 leaders in the social and economic arena gathered to examine ways to fulfill the vision of turning Israel into one of the leading countries in terms of quality of life.
Government Expenditure should Focus on ‘Relative Disadvantage’
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Israel 15, Leapfrog on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the context of the current economic crisis, Merav Arlozorov brings the example of how Japan dealt with its own depression during the 1990s.
A Competitive Approach to Economic Resilience
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged competitive approach, economic resilience, Israel 15, poverty on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A paper by The Macro Center for Political Economics in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation highlights the Israeli economy’s performance in comparison to the average of OECD countries. The paper shows that while Israel is already reaching most of OECD’s economic targets, it is lagging behind in most of their social targets.
Obama, Israel and Economic Pragmatism
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Israel 15, trial and error, US Politics on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tom Friedman’s advice to President-Elect Obama echoes some of the central themes of one of the Reut team’s forthcoming update on Leapfrogging Israel’s quality of life.
Meeting with the Lod Foundation
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, Israel 15, Lod Foundation on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the Socio-Economic team met with Aviv Wasserman and his team from the Lod Community Foundation. It aims to promote a variety of projects to benefit the city of Lod and all of its inhabitants and combines the effort of practitioners and volunteers from the community with focus on reviving the Old City and Lod’s [...]

