Health Regulation in Israel. Pharmaceuticals, Tobacco, and Obesity

Sunday February 17th, 2013

Ramada Hotel
Jerusalem, Israel

The public health community in much of the world has been taken over by big government, anti-industry and anti-free market forces. Public health activity, and the huge resources that go with it is really no longer about public health, but political ideology.

Israel in particular is at a crossroads. Is it going to go the way of Europe's precautionary principle? Or will Israel let science guide policies?

Conference Schedule:

• 9:00 Opening Remarks
  • Jeff Stier (National Center for Public Policy Research)
  • Robert Sauer (Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies)
  • Evyatar Kirschberg (Central Bureau of Statistics)
  
  
• 10:00 Regulation and Innovation in Medicine: Costs and Benefits in Human Life
  • Nadav Kidron ( CEO of Oramed)
  
  
• 11:00 Tobacco Harm Reduction
  • jeff Stier (National Center for Public Policy Research)
  
  
• 12:00 Does the Nanny State Make Us Healthier? Israeli Health Regulations and Their Consequences
  • Corinne Sauer (Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies)
  • Zev Golan (Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies)
  • Yarden Gazit (Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies)


• 12:45 Concluding Remarks


• 13:00 Lunch at the Ramada Hotel

Religion and Economic Liberty:
A Match Made in Heaven?"

Sunday May 20th - Wednesday May 24, 2012

David Citadel Hotel
Jerusalem, Israel

To see the Agenda and Download the Lectures Material

honor of Milton Friedman 100th birthday the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS), Atlas Network and the Acton Institute are cosponsored a four day conference in May 2012. The conference "Religion and Economic Liberty: A Match Made in Heaven?" took place in Jerusalem at the David Citadel Hotel.

The conference addressed the question of why so many Jews and Christians are discomfited by Capitalism and the idea of organizing an economy along free market lines. It is all too often assumed that Judaism and Christianity align with socialism and that religious ethics imply government intervention and forced redistribution.

However, this conference explored the mutually beneficial relationship between religion and economic liberty. We explored why religion flourishes in capitalist societies and why religious citizens enable a vibrant civil society, thus precluding the need for government intervention.

Pictures from the event!

"Free Markets and Social Progress in Israel:
Reflections on the Past, Directions for the Future"

Jerusalem May 29th 2011

• Yoram Ettinger & Eran Bar -Tal: Watch the Lecture
• MK Arieh Eldad: Watch the Lecture
• Prof Arye L. Hillman: Watch the Lecture
• Dr. Isaac Lifshitz: Watch the Lecture
• Daphne Netanyahu: Watch the Lecture
• Prof Sam Peltzman: Watch the Lecture (Part 1)
                       Watch the Lecture (Part 2)
• Prof Russell Roberts: Watch the Lecture