The government should recognize that we have exhausted the decline in social services spending, and formulate a new policy that will strive to increase the budget for health, transportation, education, and housing by about 25 billion NIS per year, and at the same time raise taxes so as to maintain the debt-to-GDP ratio at 60%, “
writes Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg , Former chairman of the National Economic Council, in a new policy document prepared by the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion.