Israelis Abroad
חג שמח to those who are celebrating….Falsedi is taking Pesach off; I’ll be back on the 16th April with a big piece on Iran. Watch out now…
In last week’s Haaretz, Carl Perkal, the director of resource development for Sikkuy (The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel), argued that the Israeli health-care system was the model for removing inequality between Jews and Arabs in other spheres, such as housing, education, welfare, land allocation, and job access. Citing the 1994 national health insurance scheme, he notes that the law “made no distinction between Jews and Arabs (or any other groups), and in this it ended the inherent discrimination of the previous system, by which many Arab citizens found themselves unable to pay the monthly instalments to the various kupot holim (HMOs), and the HMOs avoided making investments in health facilities in the country’s Arab towns and villages.” Read more
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