{"id":12811,"date":"2026-09-24T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/?post_type=article&#038;p=12811"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:27:06","slug":"kohelet-achievements-for-the-year-5786","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/kohelet-achievements-for-the-year-5786\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohelet Achievements for the Year 5786"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#1b7ab1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">An annual review of the Jewish year 5786 <\/mark><\/em><br><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#1b7ab1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">(October 2025 \u2013 September 2026)<\/mark><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#10537a;font-size:17px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#07151d\" class=\"has-inline-color\">5786 was a year in which Kohelet&#8217;s research turned up in the statute book with unusual frequency: restaurants freed from regulations that governed buildings rather than risk, first cracks in a protected dairy market, the attorney general&#8217;s authority circumscribed, terrorists of October 7 brought within reach of prosecution. What follows are the major national reforms in which that research played a central part.<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#681d1d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Opening Markets and Lowering Costs<\/strong><br><\/mark><br>Health Minister Chaim Katz signed measures easing the infrastructure, construction, and operating requirements imposed on restaurants and other food establishments, moving the regime from one that regulates buildings to one that regulates risk &#8211; preserving public-health protections while lowering the cost of opening a business, with savings projected in the billions of shekels. It is the second reform in two years to grow out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/restaurant-regulation.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a> by Uri Akavia and Barak Hershkovitz.<br><br>The Finance and Agriculture ministries adopted a framework opening the sheep and goat milk market to competition, after years of protective tariffs and production quotas. Tariffs on sheep cheeses go, replaced by direct support of roughly NIS 100 million over 2027\u20132030 and some NIS 20 million a year after, a payment that sits in the budget and can be cut, rather than a tariff hidden in the price of food. The framework tracks the<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-egg-laying-industry.pdf\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-egg-laying-industry.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">position paper <\/mark><\/a>of Dr. Asher Meir, Adv. Ariel Erlich, and Heni Rothstein Cohen, whose work also underpinned our questions to the Finance Ministry on the broader dairy reform.<br><br>Several other reforms grounded in Kohelet research advanced this year:<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> The Knesset completed Culture Minister Miki Zohar\u2019s cinema reform. So long as the state funds films at all, a small circle of insiders should not be awarding the money to one another: selection is now open, and part of the funding follows the box office, as Ziv Maor advocated in his 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/budgeting-the-israeli-cinema-analysis-and-policy-proposal\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a>.<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> The standards reform known as \u201cGood for Europe,\u201d which lets goods certified to European standards be sold in Israel without separate Israeli certification, reached its sixth wave in July 2026, covering elevators and a wide range of electrical and electronic products. A seventh wave due in January 2027 extends it to construction equipment, an entire sector that until now has relied almost entirely on Israeli standards. The reform follows the line of argument in Kohelet\u2019s research on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/importation-regulation-1.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">import regulation<\/mark><\/a>.<br><br><strong>>><\/strong>A clause in the Omnibus Bill (Israel\u2019s annual Arrangements Law) now lets businesses satisfy the American fire-safety standard rather than the Israeli one, while leaving the existing track open to those already compliant &#8211; a change anticipated by the same import-regulation research Tirtza Attiya and Ran Fitoussi on and Nahshon Roth on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Construction-Licensing-in-Israel-1.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">construction licensing<\/mark><\/a>.<br><br><strong>>> <\/strong>A bill opening the ride-sharing market to services such as Uber, which should expand supply and cut fares, passed its first reading, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/shared-transportation.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">groundwork<\/mark><\/a> laid by Sefi Keller, Tzviya Zicherman, Meir Buchnik, and Ariel Erlich. The bill awaits legislative continuity in the next Knesset.<br><br>Not every result went our way: an amendment to the Kashrut Fraud Prohibition Law ended competition among kashrut certifiers. Kohelet offered proposals for limiting the damage, and the enacted version, with MK Ohad Tal leading in committee, caps the system&#8217;s budgetary cost, allows flexible employment of supervisors, and creates an independent appeals committee.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#681d1d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Shrinking the State\u2019s Footprint<\/strong><br><\/mark><br>Dr. Eyal Tzur\u2019s work on broadcast regulation, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/broadcast-regulation.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">research<\/mark><\/a> he produced with Dr. Yitzhak Klein and Nikolay Taleisnik, was aimed at greater transparency and efficiency, fewer harmful precedents, and stronger Knesset oversight. He testified repeatedly before the committee drafting the new broadcasting law, and several of his recommendations are reflected in its deregulatory provisions: a new authority replaces the Cable and Satellite Council and absorbs part of the Second Authority&#8217;s remit, ending a long-standing duplication; commercial channels are freed from the requirement to run separate news companies; and cross-ownership restrictions are lifted.<br><br>Three further steps followed the same logic:<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> The committee on the future of Galei Tzahal, the army radio station, built on Tzur\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/army-radio-how-did-it-begin-and-where-is-it-heading-criticism-and-recommendations\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a> and on testimony from him and from Adi Arbel.<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> Following Dr. Tzur\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/government-ownership-of-israeli-businesses-a-reexamination\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">work on eliminating stae-owned companies<\/mark><\/a>, the state sold off two companies and folded two others into a single company, cutting duplication and saving millions.<br><br><strong>>> <\/strong>An inter-ministerial team adopted much of Ran Fitoussi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Disabled-Parking-Permits.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a> on streamlining the allocation of disabled parking permits, many of which were fraudulently obtained under the old system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#681d1d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Education: Flexibility, Fairness, and Parental Authority<\/strong><br><\/mark><br>Kohelet\u2019s main contribution in education this year was the adoption of a plan under which, for the first time, teachers entered the school system on personal contracts rather than the collective wage agreement &#8211; a change Avrum Tomer set out in a policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Teachers-Employment-Model-and-Improving-Israels-Education-System-1.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a> and Kohelet continued to document and analyze for years after implementation stalled. The aim is flexibility in hiring and the ability to attract qualified professionals in subjects facing shortages; ahead of 5787 the Ministry has opened large-scale recruitment on personal contracts on better terms, with earlier restrictions removed.Other achievements in the education field include:<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> Research by Adv. Tzvia Shiff and Avrum Tomer examined a 2022 ministry order under which students could receive psychological counselling without their parents\u2019 knowledge; the ministry has since revised it, and the updated director-general\u2019s circular requires parental consent before a school refers a student for treatment.<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> Recommendations from our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcala-cala.co.il\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.calcala-cala.co.il\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> Simple Economics<\/mark> <\/a>project entered the mandatory curriculum for grades 9\u201310, giving every student a grounding in economic reasoning.<br><br><strong> >><\/strong> MK (and former Kohelet researcher) Dan Illouz introduced a bill, informed by Kohelet\u2019s research on the subject, that would end the special status enjoyed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ottoman-Associations.pdf\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ottoman-Associations.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Ottoman associations<\/mark><\/a> \u2013 a legal form inherited from Ottoman rule that escapes the disclosure rules binding ordinary nonprofits and includes the teachers\u2019 unions \u2013 and subject them to the usual transparency duties. The bill has not yet come to a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><strong>Rebuilding the Legal Architecture<\/strong><br><br>The year\u2019s most consequential legislative development was the Attorney General (Legal Opinions, Representation and Oversight) Law, advanced by Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Constitution Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman, and passed in July by 65 to 51. Until now the attorney general&#8217;s opinions bound the government and she alone could represent the state in court, a combination found in no other democracy. The law ends both: the government may act against her opinion and may retain its own counsel to argue its position. Much of this follows the argument Dr. Aviad Bakshi proposed in his 2016<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/KPF046_eGA_E_030316_legal.advisers-1.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">policy paper<\/mark><\/a><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">.<\/mark> The law takes effect in January 2027 and faces petitions to the High Court; separating the advisory and prosecutorial roles is left to the next Knesset.<br><br>The <em>Nukhba<\/em> terrorists jurisdiction bill submitted by MKs Yulia Malinovsky and Simcha Rothman, which establishes how the perpetrators who carried out the October 7 massacre can be brought to trial, passed by a majority of 93-0. Kohelet supplied much of the professional groundwork: research on how such prosecutions could be mounted, analysis of the available alternatives, and the first professional conference held on the subject, led by Dr. Aviad Bakshi, Adv. Avraham Shalev, Dr. Shuki Blass, and Sara Haetzni-Cohen.<br><br>Dr. Eyal Tsur supplied the Knesset Education Committee with analysis during its work on the law commemorating the October 7 massacre, chiefly on the corporate design of the new memorial authority it establishes.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#681d1d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>A New Front in International Law<strong> <\/strong><\/strong><br><\/mark><br>The Forum built out its international law capacity this year, with international jurist Adv. Sarah Scialom joining Prof. Eugene Kontorovich and Adv. Avraham Shalev. The department published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/the-qatari-danger-and-the-gaza-strip\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">policy paper<\/mark><\/a> on the danger Qatar poses, <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5183482\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">legal analysis<\/mark><\/a> establishing the October 7 attack as genocide under international law, a legal <a href=\"https:\/\/israellegaldispatch.substack.com\/p\/why-are-gazans-being-denied-the-right\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">opinion<\/mark><\/a> arguing that Gaza residents are being denied the right to emigrate, and several papers refuting rulings of the International Criminal Court. It also launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/israellegaldispatch.substack.com\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Israel Legal Dispatch<\/mark><\/a>, a blog offering rapid response on live questions that has already found a wide professional readership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#681d1d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Weighing Two Costly Proposals<\/strong><br><\/mark><br>Two expensive initiatives were examined and found wanting. An <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.knesset.gov.il\/25\/Committees\/25_cs_bg_9798373.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">analysis<\/mark><\/a> by Dr. Michael Sarel and Yonatan Sorotzkin addressed a bill that would have sold public housing units to sitting tenants at discounts of 90 percent and more. Transferring public assets into private hands is generally welcome, but not at a tenth of their value to recipients who would not qualify for the assistance today, and with replacement stock to buy or build, the sale would have been a budgetary transfer rather than a privatization, as an earlier position<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/KPF101_PublicHousing_H_54_ebook.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/mark>by Dr. Asher Meir and Sorotzkin had shown. The bill did not advance.<br><br>A detailed<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/those-who-acted-responsibly-should-not-pay-the-price\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">opinion<\/mark><\/a> by Dr. Sarel against retroactively subsidizing mortgages taken before 2022 &#8211; on grounds of cost, the sanctity of private contracts, and the moral hazard it would create &#8211; informed the case against the measure, which has since stalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ebf4fa\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#681d1d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Building for What Comes Next<\/strong><br><\/mark><br>With elections approaching, Dr. Michael Sarel and Dr. Lev Drucker produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/a-package-of-25-critical-structural-reforms-to-counter-the-expected-slowdown-in-growth\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u201cA Platform for Growth: The 25 Most Important Reforms\u201d<\/mark><\/a>, a practical agenda distilled from the work of the Forum\u2019s departments, whose influence is already visible in party platforms and politicians\u2019 interviews. <br><br>Other work is aimed squarely at the next Knesset:<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> The economics department\u2019s work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/complete-fiscal-accounts-households-net-transfers-in-israel-2\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/complete-fiscal-accounts-households-net-transfers-in-israel-2\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">unequal distribution<\/mark><\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/two-types-of-inequality-the-israeli-paradox\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">economic burden<\/mark><\/a> &#8211; including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Budget-household-distribution.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u201cComplete Fiscal Accounts: Households&#8217; Net Transfers in Israel\u201d<\/mark><\/a> by Ariel Karlinsky, Tom Sadeh, Eran Yogev, and Michael Sarel &#8211; has become the reference point in that debate.<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> Dr. Netanel Fisher\u2019s work reframed the emigration debate by showing that departures among native-born Israelis are far smaller than commonly claimed, with much of the outflow consists of recent immigrants who never settled here.<br><br><strong>>><\/strong> The Forum joined a broad, ideologically diverse coalition working to advance public discussion of electoral reform, and of a semi-open ballot in particular, which would let voters influence the makeup of party lists and tie members of Knesset more directly to the public that elects them. The proposal rests on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/KPF063_e-IAoIP_271216-elections.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">paper<\/mark><\/a> by former Kohelet Fellows Prof. Avraham Diskin and Dr. Emmanuel Navon. (We take the occasion to wish our colleague Dr. Navon well in his new post as Israel\u2019s ambassador to Japan.)<br><br><strong>>> <\/strong>The regulation department closed the year by launching a <a href=\"https:\/\/k-regulatory-dashboard.streamlit.app\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">dashboard<\/mark><\/a><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <\/mark>that tracks changes in import regulation in real time, measures their effect on competition, prices, and import volumes, and identifies the barriers that survive them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">____________________________________________________________________________<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are the year&#8217;s largest results. Dozens of smaller ones \u2013 regulations rewritten, proposals quietly dropped, analyses supplied to committees and ministries that asked for them \u2013 are not listed here.<br><br><em>5787 opens with an election in view and much of this agenda still unfinished. We are grateful to those who make the work possible, and we wish you and your families a good and sweet new year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 5786, a substantial amount of the Forum\u2019s research reached the statute book. 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