Dr. Shlomo Swirski, Etty Konor-Atias, Halla Abu-Khala
| December 31 2008 |
Among the topics covered in the report: Israel's economic growth in comparative terms and the distribution of the fruits of that growth; wage gaps between men and women, Jews and Arabs and persons in the top and bottom income brackets; the shrinking of Israel's middle class; the retrenchment of publicly financed services; the educational achievements of Jews and Arabs; and the increasing burden of co-payments in the area of health care.
