{"id":9149,"date":"2013-05-19T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/article\/only-in-israel-social-democracy\/"},"modified":"2013-05-19T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:35:18","slug":"only-in-israel-social-democracy","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/only-in-israel-social-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in Israel: Social Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"Social Democracy is one of the key concepts in Israeli politics yet we hardly bother to find out where a social democratic governmental model is implemented and what are the socio-economic trends which follow a regime which is committed to provide the citizens with services from cradle to grave. It turns out that while Israel wants to become Europe, European countries had realised a long time ago that the social-democratic hocus-pocus leads to bankruptcy and social crises.\n\nIn Israeli public and academia discourse the term &#8220;social democracy&#8221; is accepted as a positive notion, while &#8220;neo-liberalism&#8221; has quite a negative connotation. Economic liberalism is typically portrayed by israeli media and academia as cruel and uncaring while social democracy is presented as moderate and just.\n\nMK Shelly Yachimovich had a significant contribution in making the term &#8220;social democracy&#8221; bon ton. She sees in the European countries which are allegedly social democratic a model Israel ought to emulate. However, it&#8217;s ironic for two reasons; Firstly, in 1985 it was the Israeli Labour party that led the economic recovery program, no doubt a neo-liberal plan by every definition. Secondly, the European countries gave up on the social democratic system a long time ago and the few countried holding on to the SD system are stuck in a loop of zero growth and high unemployment.\n\nThe addition of &#8220;Democratic&#8221; to an adjective should raise our suspicion. Countries which define themselves as democratic republics &#8211; the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for instance, do it precisely because they aren&#8217;t democratic.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/All-Publications.aspx?id=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To the full article in Hebrew<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Democracy is one of the key concepts in Israeli politics yet we hardly bother to find out where a social democratic governmental model is implemented and what are the socio-economic trends which follow a regime which is committed to provide the citizens with services from cradle to grave. 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