IN JULY 2007, the Knesset gave final approval to a law that will replace the Wisconsin pilot, which was called Mehalev (“From the Heart,” an acronym based on a Hebrew phrase meaning, “From Income Maintenance to Becoming Part of the…
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Interview with Dr. John Gal
Michal Freedman interviews Dr. John Gal Dr. John Gal is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the Tamir Committee, which in 2002 made recommendations for implementing…
Reforms versus Organized Labor
AFTER CUTTING INTO the living flesh of the jobless, the physically challenged, children and the elderly, and after trampling organized labor, the Israeli government in 2007 wakes up to discover that there is poverty in the land. One fourth of…
The Wisconsin Bluff
Since August 2005, the Wisconsin Plan has been implemented on a trial basis in Israel. It is known here as Mehalev: “From the Heart.” The idea is to shift the unemployed from welfare to “workfare” by means of private placement…
From Welfare to Nowhere
In August 2005, steps were taken to implement the Wisconsin Plan in Israel – known here as Mehalev: “From the Heart.” Applied in the American state of Wisconsin in the 1990’s, it signals a new phase in the privatization of social…
Wisconsin in Israel: Punishing the Poor
IN early August 2005, steps were taken to implement the Wisconsin Plan in Israel – known here as Me-ha-Lev: “From the Heart.” Applied in the American state of Wisconsin in the mid 1990’s, it signals a new stage in the…