Israel's moment of truth
Showing root (shoresh) socioeconomic-demographic challenges to top Israeli leaders and presenting them with the four-point Shoresh Institution framework (see below) that they can unite around to ensure Israel’s future
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![Naftali Bennett, former Prime Minister, summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/bennett_summer24.jpg)
![Yair Lapid, Chairman, Yesh Atid Party, Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister, summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/lapid_summer24.jpg)
![Benny Gantz, Chairman, HaMahane HaMamlakhti Party, summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/gantz_summer24.jpg)
![Yair Golan, Chairman, Democrats Party, (merger of Labor and Meretz parties), summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/golan_summer24.jpg)
![Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/herzog_summer24.jpg)
![Avigdor Liberman, Chairman, Yisrael Beiteinu, summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/liberman_summer24.jpg)
![Gideon Saar, Chairman, Tikvah Hadasha Party, summer of 2024](assets/simg/summer_24/eng/saar_summer24.jpg)
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Ensuring Israel’s future
Four-point Shoresh Institution framework
Objective: Returning Israel to a sustainable long run trajectory
Ensuring faster economic growth, lower poverty, and Israel’s ability to defend itself
1. Overhauling the education system
Basic tenets of such an overhaul need to include:
- A significant upgrade of common core curriculum, funding only fully compliant schools;
- Fundamental change the way that teachers are chosen, taught and compensated;
- Systemic reform of the education ministry and its methods of operation.
2. Overhauling governmental budgetary priorities
including:
- Discontinuation of benefits that incentivize non-work lifestyles;
- Full budgetary transparency so that the public will know what are Israel’s actual national priorities – and among them, who the government supports and how much they receive.
Objective: Safeguarding the above changes
Ensuring faster economic growth, lower poverty, and Israel’s ability to defend itself
3. Electoral reform
- Cabinet ministers with expertise in their ministry’s realm within an executive branch able to implement its decisions and enforce the law;
- Creation of effective checks and balances between the three branches of government.
4. Drafting and ratifying a constitution
Setting in stone national foundations that will protect the country and the rights of its citizens, and make it difficult for anyone in the future to set it back.
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