Public Policy Initiatives

Parents are paying for travel agents and scholarship students are putting thousands of shekels towards their flights to Poland. Proposal to the Education Minister: Work in specialized jobs in exchange for a supplementary scholarship towards the trip to Poland.

Meir Cohen: "I was the Minister of Social Services in Dimona. If they cut the defense budget, there will be change here."

NGO YEDID’s request to advance four bills and to increase the state budget in this area was approved. One of the central ideas behind the move is to turn the area of food security into a source for creating employment.

The Poverty Report of the National Insurance Institute proves that government activities in the area of employment - creation of jobs and removal of barriers to the unemployed - did not succeed in bringing about the change that is necessary. Why not? The answer is simple. Creating jobs is not a complete solution to economic and social disparities. The solution must include workers’ being paid wages high enough to meet the cost of living; and National Insurance benefits must be updated such that those who subsist on them may do so in dignity.

In the 18th Knesset, YEDID advanced more than 40 bills in diverse areas, including housing, social security, the system of repossessions, consumer and banking matters, proper and transparent governance, and more. And this is our intention this time as well: to take on the members of the Knesset and convince them to present and pass proper social policy.