The Annual Economic Conference sponsored by the Israel Democracy Institute has become the most important economic conference in Israel. Each year central issues concerning the Israeli economy are discussed.
The conference will be broadcast live on www.idi.org.il
The “Caesarea 2005” conference opened in Jerusalem with a session dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Economic Stabilization Program and will conclude on June 30 with a special panel and an address by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Executive heads of different economic sectors will be present and Minister of Finance Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu will head the entire conference. Four teams have been established, comprised of leading figures in the public and academic sectors, each of which will present their findings at separate panels:
- The Disengagement Plan, headed by Professor Daniel Tzidon
- A Small Market in a Global Economy, headed by Mr. Eli Hurvitz
- The Budgeting Process, headed by Professor Avraham Ben-Bassat and Dr. Momi Dahan; and
- Macroeconomics, headed by Professor Rafi Melnick.
The Israel Democracy Institute was founded in October 1991 as an independent non-partisan think tank. Committed to the principle of parliamentary democracy, and to strengthening and stabilizing it, the Institute is a policy-guiding body operating on the seam between politics and the academic world.