An introduction to “gender audits”, “gender budgets”, and “Women’s Budget Statements” in Israel and around the world

Critique of a new package of economic measures, the burden of which falls on low-income Israelis. The package was approved by the Israeli Cabinet at the end of April 2002. It now goes to the Knesset (Parliament) for approval.

Government Funding of the Israeli Settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights in the 1990s of Local Governments, Home Construction, and Road Building.

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

Analysis and Proposal for Reform

Presents the average wage in Israel by locality and gender, as well as the proportion of wage earners taking home the minimum wage or less