Israel’s healthcare system will continue to exist as a mixed public-private model. The balance between the two – the public and the private — is of critical importance, if we aspire to equality in access to healthcare.

It is incumbent upon us to remember that contribution and to strengthen that cooperation in ordinary times as well as in emergencies

The figures presented in the report reflect the first chapters of the story of the epidemic, which is also a story of the widening of inequality in Israel and elsewhere

What Israel needs is more help-tech workers, more positions for help-tech workers in the public services, and higher salaries that will not discourage women (as well as men) from entering and remaining in the help-tech professions

While attention was focused on coronavirus departments and on vaccinations, one aspect of the epidemic remained at the margins of public attention: mental health.

The differential impact on Israelis from diverse population groups

This annual Adva Center socio-economic report focuses on the effect of the corona crisis on three population groups and illuminates a number of other factors relevant to the crisis

Israelis stood on their balconies to cheer and thank the medical teams in the hospitals who diligently cared for corona patients. It was a beautiful, heartwarming gesture. Now, this show of appreciation should be translated into improving working conditions in the hospitals

Arab society is part and parcel of Israeli society and it should be represented and discussed in the daily media reports about the virus that all Israelis follow so closely

הצורך להגדיל את ההוצאה הציבורית לבריאות נובע מהאי שוויון הגדל במצב הבריאות של ישראלים בני קבוצות שונות. כל מי שדוגל בהגברת השוויון בבריאות חייב לבקש להגדיל את ההוצאה הציבורית לבריאות