This speech was presented as part of 'Hyde Park' on the state of the legal system in Israel The Public Debate Club

In the public debate, the participants presented positions that touched on the welfare system and its limitations - legal, ethical and economic issues such as: the sources of inequality, different aspects of poverty, and different approaches to addressing the problem of poverty.

Below is a summary of the positions presented as agreed upon during the discussion.

The problem of an employment rate that is too low in Israel

Shulamit - teacher and director of the enrichment program

I will talk about the poverty gap in terms of employment. Historically there are big gaps and they have always tried to solve the problem. I will talk about two reasons for the disparities - environmental poverty and low participation in the labor force.

A. Environmental poverty - a child who grows up in a developed environment, even if he goes to school, hears only a certain vocabulary and comes out uneducated. It would be possible to say "we can give him the opportunity to work" but in Israel even that is not possible. Because in addition to not giving him an education, we are importing foreign workers, which causes competition and unemployment.

The second reason why it is difficult to find a job in Israel is low participation in the labor force.
15% of the working-age population are ultra-Orthodox, but only 40% of them work, and for men the proportion is even lower. The state allows this and even encourages it by special allowances and exemption from military service.
In addition, Arabs have other serious problems. A Muslim man does not get a job because he is like that, a Muslim woman cannot find a job because she is not allowed to leave the village alone and there are no factories in the village, and in any case they are not educated so they cannot work in any serious profession but compete (and lose) with the foreign workers. At best they spend a little work and that too in very certain professions.

I urge you to find solutions to unemployment - to the environmental poverty that gives rise to laborers, and to the problem of limited employment of ultra-Orthodox and Arabs.

About the public debate club

As part of the club, a monthly 'Hyde Park' is held, that is, an open public discussion on a topical issue, in which each participant presents his positions in a limited time, and receives feedback from the other participants and the moderator Guy Yariv. The goal of the club is to improve public discourse and allow for in-depth discussion of controversial issues while learning rhetoric and improving speech and persuasion skills.
The club is open to the public and includes support for participants who suffer afraid of what Or they have no experience in public speaking.

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Analysis of the problem of poverty

• How did the inequality arise?
• Too many children for those who cannot raise them
• The employment rate is too low in Israel
• More wealth for all - less poverty for the poor
• The 'I deserve' culture is the cause of poverty
• The free market will reward the poor from poverty
• The meaning of social differences

Suggestions for improving the poverty situation

• Free education from kindergarten to university
• Obligation of a license for the birth of children
• negative income tax

Position papers on the subject

• Does the poverty line lie?
• limit the salary of the managers
• Tax on capital gains
• Bringing Haredim and Arabs to work
• The problem of education in the periphery
• Expand the Wisconsin program
• Government intervention in the economy

• How to fight poverty in Israel
• University tuition fees
• Where to limit freedom of speech?
• Religious coercion or Jewish discrimination?

Previous public hearings

• Sex and morality: from porn to pride
• The rule of law: between the High Court of Justice and Alferon
• Medicine and morality: the limitation of the right to life
• Who is to blame for the crisis in the education system?
• Lecture: The development of the economic crisis
• Who should be the prime minister?
• Environmental quality: Is it at any cost?
• What caused the economic crisis?

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