Fostering Israel’s “Age of Reform”

Issue Date July 1993
Volume 4
Issue 3
Page Numbers 114-23
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About the Author

Arye Carmon is the founding president of the Jerusalem-based Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), a nonprofit activist think tank created by concerned Israeli citizens and prominent Jewish leaders from around the world to assist the process of democratic political and economic reform in the State of Israel.

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