ליברטריאנים בישראל

This Saturday, March 27th, our Haifa chapter – known provisionally as the First Haifa Libertarian Think-Tank held its first meeting. The meeting was organized by Shimri Mesika and Eyal Noy. As was planned, members of the group held a discussion of Murray Rothbard’s “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature” and the ethical criticisms of socialism. [...]

Economists often bring up the concept of sin taxes – the concept of taxing a product more than other products, to discourage its use and to pay for the negative externalities of the product. In Israel, special taxes exist on cigarettes, alcohol, and automobiles – in the latter case, a 73% sales tax or more [...]

The Tel-Aviv University Students for Liberty has had its first meeting today.

The audience braved the horrible Tel-Aviv traffic jams.

It opened with a brief lecture by yours truly (Boris Karpa). In that lecture, I outlined the prospects of libertarian political thought in Israel. I argued that though the political tradition of the country was statist rather [...]

News media report that the Knesset Committee for Education, Culture and Sports had approved new sub-regulations for the Motor Sports Law – paving the way to finally legalize car racing in Israel. For those keeping score at home: the original law passed in 2005, and the process of working out regulations for it had taken [...]

Libertarianism is not very popular – neither in Israel nor in any other country in the world. While in some countries – for example, the United States of America – libertarianism takes an active role in the national debate, nowhere do libertarians constitute a political majority. On its face, this would imply that it is [...]

העיתון “ידיעות אחרונות” רוצה להשתמש במדינה ודרך החוק להכריח את העיתון “ישראל היום” לא לתת את העיתונים בחינם. כן, והם עושים את זה בלי להתבייש. פוגעים בשוק החופשי וכמובן בחירות בכלל. אף אחד לא מכריח את ”ידיעות אחרונות” לשים מחיר על העיתונים שלהם. יכולים להתחרות בלי לקבוע מחיר לעיתון ולתת יותר מקום לפרסומות, [...]

Congratulations, Liberty lovers in the Holy Land and everywhere in the world!
With your help, the Israeli libertarian movement has achieved its first success. While our numbers are still fairly limited, we now have two local chapters – one at the Tel-Aviv University and one at Haifa.
The Tel-Aviv University Students for Liberty will meet on Thursday, [...]

עם פרוץ המשבר  הכלכלי בספטמבר 2008 חשו פוליטיקאים בכל  העולם את הצורך הבוער להפוך  לגיבורי השעה, להציל את הכלכלה, להעניש את החמדנים שגרמו למשבר ולהחזיר  את האמון של האדם הפשוט, המשקיעים, הכלכלה והממשלה זה בזה. אובאמה ומקיין שהיו בעיצומה של מערכת בחירות גילו אחדות  דעים מרשימה שבאו לשבת עם ג’ורג’ בוש  ליד שולחן אחד ולהציל את הכלכלה מעצמה. “חוק החירום לייצוב כלכלת  ארה”ב לשנת 2008″ עבר במהירות  שמצביעה על כך שהמחלוקות  בין המפלגה הרפובליקנית לדמוקרטית [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have just met with an official of the Tel-Aviv University Student Union regarding founding a branch of our movement there. I am to meet with them again next Monday, they’re not quite certain what the requirements are for a student cell which is not a cell of a registered amuta.
However, the [...]