Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Twelve, 304 pp., $26.99
The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century
by Paul Rivlin
Cambridge University Press, 288 pp., $90.00; $31.99 (paper)
The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation
by Shir Hever
Pluto, 226 pp., $95.00; $30.00 (paper)
Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within
by Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman
Cambridge University Press, 262 pp., $85.00; $27.99 (paper)
“We want a welfare state!” chanted members of a movement that soon had the backing of unions, women’s groups, parents upset about the exorbitant cost of day care, and medical workers on strike over low wages in public hospitals short of resources. The eruption of popular disenchantment and call for a “more just, humane Israel” spelled out in a manifesto released by some of the protesters made the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly look a lot less stable, not least since the man at its helm has long been a staunch advocate of the laissez-faire economic policies the demonstrators angrily assailed.
