Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel

Weinreb, Amelia Rosenberg

doi:10.1177/0094306118805422gg

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“…The expression ‘serving elite’ alluded to collectivist values, highlighting the voluntarism and altruism expected of the country's leaders in those decades. Altruistic sacrifice was understood as the preferred mode of self‐actualisation, rather than that associated with personal initiative, consistent with the neoliberal discourse that became more dominant in Israel towards the end of the 1980s (Maron & Shalev, 2017). Interestingly, the teachers' use of the ‘serving elite’ motto did not refer to the collectivist aspects underpinning the original concept that prevailed in Israel's popular discourse for years.…”

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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

Pinto‐Dror,

Shoshana

2024

British Educational Res J

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The research question at the core of this paper concerns how teachers in elite Israeli high schools explain their educational work in this context, given its central role in establishing and perpetuating privilege in the current polarised era. To answer this question, we conducted 28 interviews with teachers from three elite high schools in Israel. The findings reveal three ways teachers justified their educational work in elite schools: cultivating the ‘serving elite’, helping shape elite students' leftist political orientation and future voting behaviour (emphasising the idea that political leftism serves as a mitigating force against the excesses of plutocracy) and fulfilling elite children's right to a level of education commensurate with their ability. The discussion problematises these justifications by highlighting their features, which, in turn, contribute to a complex understanding of how privilege functions and how advantages and inequality are produced and perpetuated in exclusive and exclusionary elite spaces.

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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

Pinto‐Dror,

Shoshana

2024

British Educational Res J

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“…It was not until the 1980s, when major national economic crises struck, including a bank and stocks crisis in 1983 and hyperinflation reaching 450% in 1984, that the Israeli government introduced an Economic Stabilization Plan (Bruno & Piterman, 1987) [42]. This has set in motion a series of significant reforms that would move the country towards a capitalist, market-based economic model (Maron & Shalev, 2017) [43]. As a result, since the 1990s, the Israeli high-tech sector has entered an intensive developing phase to become a central part of the economy and a global technological innovation hub.…”

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The Impact Tech Startup: Initial Findings on a New, SDG-Focused Organizational Category

Gidron,

Bar,

Finger Keren

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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This study sheds light on the prevalence, focus, and key structural dimensions of the Impact Tech Startup—a new organizational category of enterprise whose technologically innovative products or services are aimed at creating social or environmental impact. After tracing the Impact Tech Startup’s conceptual roots and the features it shares with startups and social enterprises, we examine the context of Israel as a particularly supportive environment for startup entrepreneurship. We then present the initial findings from our empirical study conducted in Israel, in which we examined 1657 startups, developed a machine learning algorithm to identify which of these can be classified as an Impact Tech Startup, and clustered the results within the framework of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Our findings indicate that approximately one third of Israel’s startups can be classified as an Impact Tech Startup. Of these, almost a third are producing products or services relevant to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being). Furthermore, we find that the technologies deployed by ITSs can help optimize decisions by professionals and, in doing so, substantially contribute to tackling social and environmental challenges. This study aimed to give the Impact Tech Startup an initial “face” and to invite further, more detailed studies in the future.

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Neoliberalism as a State Project: Changing the Political Economy of Israel

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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools

The Impact Tech Startup: Initial Findings on a New, SDG-Focused Organizational Category

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