ליברטריאנים בישראל

Often, when debating some new statist restriction on our lives, I am confronted with a simple argument: “Why do you care? It is not such a big thing that they installed a few more cameras down the street. That in itself doesn’t pose some kind of Orwellian menace! Stop being so paranoid!” In short, they [...]

Their complete report of the incident is available over here.
While it repeats  the points that we covered on this site in broad strokes already, this is an interesting detail:
Apple has long lacked a strong presence in Israel. That began to change in late 2008, after Nehemia Peres, the son of Israeli President Shimon [...]

Those of you who have read the previous post on this board – regarding the unfair ban on Apple’s iPad – and who have already bothered to call Dr. Yechiel Shabi at 050-6236001 – will have known that the official government excuse – this time – is that the iPad is supposedly only compliant with [...]

As the loyal readers of this site know, Israel is infamous for a variety of arbitrary bans and restrictions – restrictions on racing, poker, and balcony enclosures, sin taxes on amplifiers – but this one perhaps takes the cake. The Israeli government has, without warning, prohibited the iPad device from being brought into the country, [...]

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 [...]