Download or read book The Evolution of Israel's Social Security System written by Haim Barkai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this study offers a survey of the conceptual background, the political dimension, and the macroeconomic context and constraints of the social security system in Israel, which in four decades (since the mid-1950s) grew virtually from scratch into a comprehensive system, similar in scope to that of Western and Northern Europe, North America, the European outposts in the antipodes and, of course, Japan.