The Economic Policies of the Second Netanyahu Government (2009-2012)

This annual update of the Social Report appears at the height of the Israeli election season, held early because of government fears that it would not be able to mobilize a majority to pass a budget bill that
called for harsh cuts in the social services.

The report shows that in 2010 there was a small increase in the income of most Israeli households, bringing their income back to its 2008 level. It also reveals that at the same time, inequality continued to grow. The report features developments over the past year as well as over the past decade.

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This report, the first of its kind about Israel, connects the impressive growth in Israel’s GDP with a concomitant increase in poverty, the rise in the national average wage with growing wage inequality, and a proposed tax reform with erosion in outlays on education, health and housing