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Also see the following IASPS Op-Eds: Israel's Remaining Option; The Foreign Policy of Shirking; Erev Yom Kippur 2000; The Rosh Hashanah War; Israel is Taking Option #1; The Four Options after Camp David; The Best Chance for Peace; Incitement and the Demise of Truth

Strikes
-Hostages Taken at the Airport (11/25/01)
-Baggage, Shmaggage (11/23/01)
-Shutting Down the Universities (11/22/01)
-Contradiction Contradicted (11/15/01)
-Strikes, Not Security, Disrupt Israeli Life (11/8/01)
-Oh No! Not Another Strike! (3/20/01)
-Death by Garbage (4/6/01)
-Stranger than Fiction (3/8/01)
-Strikes are Here to Stay (3/5/01)
-All the News Not Fit to Print (2/2/01)
-Gas Strike Ends; Workers Get Safety Net (1/6/01)
-The Histadrut Declares a Labor Dispute (1/4/01)

Taxes
-Tax Reform, Israeli Style (9/25/01)
-No Tax Cuts (5/30/01)
-Shalom and the Balance Trap (4/4/01)
-Israel's Never-Ending Tax Grab (1/25/01)
-Illegal Taxes (1/13/01)

Also see these IASPS Op-Eds: Are Israelis Really Overtaxed?

Telecommunications
- Yes TV (8/8/02)
-Saying Yes to the Bezek Monopoly (11/18/01)
-NBN 300: A reflection (4/1/01)

Water
-Water at a Cost (10/24/01)
-Good News on Water? Not Quite (10/9/01)
-Sharon's Folly (9/15/01)
-Lowest Water Prices in the World? (9/6/01)
-Socialist Agriculture Must Survive (8/6/01)
-What! Another Story on Israel's Water Crisis? (7/30/01)
-Fiddling While Israel Thirsts (7/25/01)
-Water Management (7/13/01)
-The Syrian Model (6/30/01)
-Fiddling While Israel Dries (6/11/01)
-The Alternative (6/6/01)
-Water, Water, Nowhere (4/28/01)
-My Kingdom for a Glass of Water (4/18/01)
-How Dry I am (4/13/01)
-Shohat's Sudden Realization (3/14/01)
-What Your Water Bill Really Pays For (3/4/01)
-Turkey Water Deal? Not Yet (2/9/01)

Others
-No Audience for TV (10/31/02)
-Foreign Universities in Israel (10/6/02)
-Dollarization (10/3/02)
-Competition in 2004: Electricity & Phones (8/14/02)
-RR, Geriatrics and Plywood (7/30/02)
-You Read It Here First (7/24/02)
-Follow-up on Four Stories (7/21/02)
-A Dismal Return to Normalcy (1/4/02)
-The Delusions of the Israeli Professorate (12/27/01)
-The High Cost of Bad Policy (12/2/01)
-The Sky is Falling (11/15/01)
-Clinton Still Morally Confused (11/9/01)
-The War on Private Enterprise (10/20/01)
-Socialists of the World, Unite! (10/12/01)
-Markets over Mumbo-Jumbo (8/30/01)
-Burying the Lead (8/23/01)
-The Language of the Bees (8/20/01)
-Powell on the Wrong Page (8/3/01)
-Israel in Darkness (7/31/01)
-An Independent Policy Community (7/27/01)
-Goldman-Sachs Apologizes (6/5/01)
-True Colors Exposed (5/10/01)
-The New York Times and American Democracy (4/6/01)
-Campaign Finance Reform (4/2/01)
-Statistical Lives and Other Affronts to Reason (3/6/01)
-Relative Journalism (2/21/01)
-Millionaires for the Estate Tax (2/19/01)
-The Lawless State Legal Advisor (2/14/01)
-"Freedom" as a Means to Oppression (2/14/01)
-Jackson's Moral Authority (1/22/01)
-Lawlessness and Populism (1/17/01)
-Cutting Tuition (1/12/01)
-Yediot and the FPZ (1/9/01)
-Barak's Real Motive (1/1/01)

2000 Archive

Aid and Free Money

Defense/Security

Employment and Unemployment

High-Tech

Insurance

Israeli Statism

Land and Housing

Oil and Energy

Peace Process

Strikes

Taxes

Telecommunications

Water

Others

Aid and Free Money
-The New Administration and Aid to Israel (12/17/00)
-Three Cheers for the Extremists (12/7/00)
-The Burden of Aid (10/29/00)
-Israel in Search of Aid (7/26/00)
-Promising Threats (7/4/00)

Defense/Security
-Turkey is What Counts (11/26/00)
-A "New Look" at Israeli Deterrence Policy (11/22/00)
-The American Role in Mideast Peace (11/15/00)
-IDF, Reserves, Reform and IASPS Policy Studies No. 40 (9/4/00)
-Paying for Knowledge (9/3/00)
-The Growing Importance of Africa (9/3/00)
-An Army in Need of Change (8/25/00)
-Who Lost Israel's Export Markets? (8/25/00)
-Turkmenistan - Another Domino Falls (8/16/00)
-Russia Moves to Control Georgia (8/3/00)
-Controlling the Gates of the Persian Gulf (5/17/00)

Employment and Unemployment
-The Employment Service Isn't Working (9/2/01)
-Detrimental Labor Policies (8/8/00)
-The Minimum Wage Bill (7/28/00)
-Big Brother is Watching (6/30/00)
-New Heights of Chutzpah (6/28/00)
-Standing on the Edge (4/30/00)
-Only in Israel (4/27/00)
-The Logic of the Minimum Wage Hike (3/28/00)
-Ha'aretz Wakes Up (3/25/00)
-Where is the Booming Economy? (3/22/00)
-More Socialist Logic (3/19/00)
-Subsidizing the Unemployed (3/2/00)
-Barak's Impossible Promises (2/21/00)

High-Tech
-Buying a High-Tech Sector (10/11/00)
-The Threat of High Tech (10/5/00)
-Stampede from the Silicon Wadi (8/25/00)
-The Irish Example (6/22/00)
-Chromatis and Lucent (6/5/00)
-Another Missed Opportunity (6/4/00)
-Bribing Investors (6/1/00)
-The New Israel? (4/25/00)
-The Good Ol' Boys Speak Out (3/31/00)

Insurance
-Absurd News on Auto Insurance (9/22/00)
-More Barriers to Insurance Reform (7/14/00)
-Auto Insurance as Metaphor (6/23/00)
-Auto Insurance Premiums (6/19/00)
-Auto Insurance Reform (1/11/00)

Israeli Statism
-Shouting at the Hospital (8/29/01)
-Big Government Gets Bigger (8/22/01)
-Two Fair Trade Bodies (8/21/01)
-More Socialism is not the Answer (8/16/01)
-A Poverty of Good Sense (12/24/00)
-Digging the Hole Deeper (12/20/00)
-Rolling Back Reform (12/12/00)
-The Cure or the Disease? (12/9/00)
-Savings as Costs (11/30/00)
-Alice in the Electric Wonderland (1/5/00)
-The Last of the Histadrut Economists (10/6/00)
-Another Reason for Government Spending (9/24/00)
-The Good of the City vs. the Good of the Child (9/11/00)
-The Free Processing Zone - an Obituary (8/31/00)
-Subliminal Statism (8/11/00)
-The Populist Season (6/13/00)
-The Cement Monopoly (5/16/00)
-Barak's "Economic Revolution" (5/9/00)
-Ranking the Israeli Economy (5/5/00)
-Ran Cohen's Priorities (5/3/00)
-A Few Small Facts (3/30/00)
-The Journal Awakens (3/15/00)
-Lawlessness at the Top (3/10/00)
-Words without meaning (2/24/00)
-Overpaid Bureaucrats (2/23/00)
-Reforming the Public Sector? (2/15/00)
-Ran Cohen's Latest Idea (1/30/00)
-The Barak Method (1/28/00)
-Ran Cohen and New Horizon (1/26/00)

Land and Housing
-Record Ugliness (9/12/00)
-Delays in Housing Construction (8/15/00)
-Public Housing (5/31/00)
-No Bread, No Circuses (5/23/00)
-The Real Estate Market (3/16/00)
-Housing in Jerusalem (2/29/00)
-Housing Aid (2/14/00)
-The Israel Lands Administration (1/12/00)
-Rent Control (1/3/00)

Oil and Energy
-Energy Prices (12/26/00)
-Russia in the Gulf (5/2/00)
-Israel and US Strategic Policy ()4/12/00
-The Future of the Oil Producers (10/3/00)
-Anti-Competitive Cartel Costs Consumers (9/15/00)
-OPEC's Last Horrah (9/13/00)
-Electricity Prices (7/24/00)
-Kazakhstan, A New Saudi Arabia (7/18/00)
-The Saudis' "Surprising" Decision (7/16/00)
-The Bear is Back (6/9/00)
-Retreat on all Fronts (5/25/00)
-Oil Prices Dive (4/10/00)
-The Politics of Oil (2/17/00)

Peace Process
-On War, Terrorism and Friendship (9/1/01)
-Deconstructing Arafat (8/28/01)
-Contemptible Weakness (8/21/01)
-Caught Between Peace and War in the Holy Land (12/28/00)
-The Latest Peace Process Logic (12/12/00)
-The New Military Logic (12/8/00)
-Legislating Peace from the Bench (12/3/00)
-Minimal Self Defense (11/24/00)
-Israeli Deterrence Policy (11/22/00)
-A Visionary, Really? (11/18/00)
-Even More Free Money (11/16/00)
-Strange Reasoning at the New York Times (11/6/00)
-Connect the Dots (11/1/00)
-A Chain of Stories (10/30/00)
-News from the Times (10/21/00)
-Boker Tov, Israel (8/17/00)
-Dispatch from Camp David (7/24/00)
-What Price for Clinton's Legacy? (7/14/00)
-Barak's Motivation (7/14/00)
-Turkey and the Peace Process (3/4/00)

Strikes
-Organized Protest (9/27/00)
-Rewarding Lawlessness (3/17/00)
-Warning Strike (1/26/00)
-Another Day Another Strike (1/26/00)
-The Strike of the Week (1/23/00)
-Giving in to the Strikers (7/6/00)
-Israel's Strike-Plagued Economy (3/14/00)
-The Latest Strike (3/14/00)
-The Welfare Strike (3/12/00)

Taxes
-The Truth About Taxes (12/6/00)
-Taxing While Israel Burns (10/13/00)
-High Tech, High Taxes, Hype Internet (9/26/00)
-Sabbath Bus Lines: Wrong Problem, Wrong Solution (9/17/00)
-Paying for Knowledge (9/3/00)
-Auto-Part Theft (7/20/00)
-The Rule of Law (6/20/00)
-Mistaken Concepts Indeed (6/14/00)
-Comparative Tax Reform (6/7/00)
-The "Tragedy" of Israeli Economics (5/26/00)
-Israel as a Bedroom Community (5/19/00)
-Free Markets and the New Middle East (5/14/00)
-The TV Tax (5/11/00)
-More on the Tax Reforms (5/10/00)
-Lines at the Banks (5/7/00)
-Tax Reform - Israeli Style (5/5/00)
-Kaplan is Teaching (4/27/00)
-Minister of Finance to Fight Black Capital (4/17/00)
-One Time Opportunity? (3/29/00)
-Rumors of a New Tax (3/26/00)
-Tax "Reform" (3/21/00)
-"Tell me it ain't so!" (1/13/00)

Telecommunications
-With Friends Like These... (11/21/00)
-Where is the Market? (11/12/00)
-No Reason for Concern? (10/26/00)
-Israel's Two Economies (10/26/00)
-Port and Phone Market Reform: The Full Story (8/20/00)
-Two Stories of State Monopolies (7/27/00)
-Barak's Protégé (5/30/00)
-The Truth Comes Out (5/28/00)
-Israel Shackles Internet Entrepreneurs (4/11/00)
-Waste at Bezek (4/5/00)
-Internet Phone Rates (4/4/00)
-The Story of Telrad (3/5/00)
-Bezek Workers Outraged by Competition (2/21/00)
-Alice in the Holy Land (1/28/00)
-Cable TV and the Treasury (1/23/00)
-Bezek Strike and the Railway (1/11/00)

Water
-Water Crisis on Two Fronts (12/22/00)
-Ignoring the Water Crisis (12/12/00)
-Drowning in Mismanagement (10/27/00)
-Poison in Israel's Water Supply (9/14/00)
-The Water Police (8/9/00)
-Trading Water Rights (8/7/00)
-Meaningless Water Restrictions (7/8/00)
-The Water Commissioner (6/29/00)
-Israel's Water Crisis (6/25/00)
-"Good" News from Mekorot (6/16/00)
-Water Politics in the Middle East (5/21/00)
-Water Politics Take on a New Dimension (5/17/00)
-Black Market Capital (4/13/00)
-The Geopolitics of Water (3/30/00)
-Statism and the Water Crisis (3/12/00)
-Turkey and the Peace Process (3/4/00)

Others
-Restoring the Primacy of Markets (8/30/01)
-Burying the Lead (8/23/01)
-The Language of the Bees (8/20/01)
-Socialism Trumps Markets in the Mideast (8/14/01)
-Some Standards at the New York Times (12/18/00)
-Twisting the News (12/14/00)
-Road Infrastructure (12/14/00)
-Cutting Through the Coverage (12/11/00)
-The Palestinian Economy (12/8/00)
-Who Won in Florida (12/4/00)
-Constitutional Crisis (12/3/00)
-The Key to the Times (11/27/00)
-More Problems at the Ports (9/5/00)
-Israel's Socialist Medical System is Sick (9/1/00)
-Barak's Constitution (8/22/00)
-Superfluous and Wasteful (8/20/00)
-The Dual Listing Law (8/10/00)
-Social Security Doesn't Cover Night Burials (7/20/00)
-Israeli Justice (7/14/00)
-Ha'aretz Misses the Point (7/7/00)
-Promoting Tourism (6/6/00)
-What are the Editors Reading? (6/2/00)
-Moody's to Reexamine Israel's Credit Rating (4/17/00)
-Israel's Sewage System (4/9/00)
-The Banks are Profiting (4/7/00)
-Israel's Roads (4/3/00)
-Geriatric Medical Services (3/27/00)
-The Elderly in Israel (2/14/00)
-More Lawlessness from the Legal System (5/2/00)
-The State and the Steel Industry (3/19/00)
-The Steel Market (3/9/00)
-The Israeli Mortgage Industry (3/9/00)
-Nursery School Fantasies (2/16/00)
-Chief Scientist Knowingly Backs Failure (1/11/00)
-Subsidizing Failure (1/6/00)
-The New York Times: Guilty as Charged (1/3/00)

1999 Archive

Aid and Free Money

Defense/Security

Employment and Unemployment

High-Tech

Peace Process

Taxes

Telecommunications

Others

Aid and Free Money
-Shas and Free Money (12/29/99)

Defense/Security
-Drones as Missile Defense (12/27/99)
-The Realities of Missile Defense (11/22/99)

Employment and Unemployment
-Foreign Workers in Israel (12/26/99)
-More of the Same on Poverty (12/23/99)
-Unemployment Threatens Peace? (12/17/99)
-The Truth about the Free Processing Zone (12/8/99)

High-Tech
-Israel, economic powerhouse? (11/18/99)

Peace Process
-The Peace Process (12/17/99)

Taxes
-Israel's Unpopular Stock Market (12/24/99)
-The Stock Market Tax (12/9/99)

Telecommunications
-Gad Ze'evi and Bezek Stock (11/1/99)

Others
-Shas Shocks the New York Times (12/29/99)