Privatisation, outsourcing and employment relations in Israel

This chapter focuses on the effect that outsourcing, as a subset of privatization, has had on employment relations in Israel. In particular, chapter highlights the adverse, and perhaps counter-intuitive, effects that the law has had on the plight of Israeli contract workers. Israeli governmental agencies and local councils have turned to outsourcing as a means to circumventing post limits and due to the Ministry of Finance’s pressures to increase ‘flexibility’ in the civil service. Intriguingly, paradoxically, and tragically, the law’s effort to regulate this growing phenomenon has led employers resorting to tactics which have redefined agency workers (teachers, nurses, etc) as workers subject to the “outsourcing of services” (teaching, nursing, etc). This has moved such workers into a legal void, depriving them of rights and protection

Israeli and Palestinians: Prospects for Peace and Security

Streaming audio requires RealPlayer.The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Itzhak Galnoor is the Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Galnoor has served on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association. He wrote The Partition of Palestine: Decision Crossroads in the Zionist Movement and edited Advances in Political Science, published by Cambridge University Press and part of the IPSA book series. He has been a Visiting Professor at McGill University, (Canada), Nanzan University, (Japan), University of Arhus, (Denmark), Oxford University, (UK) and University of California (Berkeley, USA). From 1994-96, he served as Head of the Civil Service Commission. Professor Galnoor has served on Israel Science Foundation’s Executive Committee since 2001 and on the Governing Board of Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2003. Professor Galnoor received a Ph.D from Syracuse University in 1969.Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, streaming audi

Privatization policy in Israel: state responsibility and the boundaries between the public and the private

Israel’s privatization policy since the 1980s has changed Israeli society and its economy more than any other reform. This is not just an issue of economics; privatization is closely linked to the notion of what relations should exist between the state and its citizens. Privatization Policy in Israel: State Responsibility and the Boundaries between the Public and the Private is the result of research that began in 2007 at the Yaacov Chazan Center for Social Justice and Democracy, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, as part of a broad interdisciplinary project. The book discusses economic and political theories and examines the state’s areas of responsibility, the shifting of the boundaries between public and private, and the state’s regulatory tools. The book also examines privatization steps taken in areas including infrastructure, education, health, pensions, and human resources. The articles have a single analytical framework, which shows that the areas under discussion are not separate; they have a common denominator that reflects the nature of Israel’s privatization policy. The book does not attempt to argue that every privatization is necessarily bad, but it does reject the widespread assumption that all privatization is good. According to this approach, the point of departure for a consideration of privatization should be that the burden of proof lies on those who seek to move the boundary between the public and the private

The privatization of Israel: the withdrawal of state responsibility

The book is the first to cover all areas of privatization in Israel and one of the first to do so in general, including state infrastructure, immigration policy, land, health, education, welfare, regulation, and policy design. As such, it offers a comprehensive volume for students, policy makers, and scholars interested in the economic, sociological, political, and legal perspectives of a major policy trend that has changed the face and character of the modern state. In addition, it is a vital contribution to those who have an interest in changes in Israeli society, politics, and economy

Comparing steering profiles of political systems the case of Isreal

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