Daniel Doron

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Daniel Doron
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Daniel Doron was an Israeli political activist and translator. He was the founder and director of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (ICSEP). In this capacity, he recommended economic changes to the Israeli government, some of which have successfully been implemented. He wrote on the advantages of free market economics for The Wall Street Journal and The Jerusalem Post . He translated The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man into Hebrew. [1]

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Biography

Daniel Doron was a third-generation sabra. His grandfather, Zerah Barnett, was one of the first Jewish pioneers in Palestine. Doron served Air Force Intelligence during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in 1948, and studied sociology and economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the 1960s, Daniel Doron resumed his studies as a Fellow of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, and then with Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzuz as a visiting scholar at Columbia University. His exposure to economist Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and other free market intellectual forces at the University of Chicago greatly influenced him. Later, the philosophies Doron acquired in the United States would lead him to push for free market changes in Israel's anti-competitive, socialist society and economy.[ citation needed ]

Public service career

He served under Teddy Kollek, then director-general of the Prime Minister's Office. In 1957, Doron was delegated by the Prime Minister's Office to serve as special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv.[ citation needed ]

He also served on an economic advisory group for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and on the Israel Government Council for National and Economic Planning, was a member of the board of the Entrepreneurial Center of Tel Aviv University, and is a member of the Mont-Pelerin Society. Doron was among the founders of The Herzliyah Conference, served on its steering committee and initiated its economic segment.[ citation needed ]

Political activism

In 1983, Doron founded the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (ICSEP), a non-profit organization that seeks to increase the competitiveness of the Israeli economy. [2] ICSEP conducts seminars for top Israeli university students to study free market economics [3] and employs respected Israeli economic thinkers to examine Israeli markets in search of anti-competitive inefficiencies.

ICSEP under Daniel Doron's leadership recommended for less concentration of ownership in the Israel economy in order to create a more competitive economy. [4]

Art career

Doron was a patron and representative of the artist Shalom of Safed, arranging 15 museum exhibitions. Doron cowrote the film "Shalom of Safed – The Innocent Eye of a Man of Galilee. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "ICSEP: About the director". Archived from the original on 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
  2. ↑ http://icsep.org.il/persons/daniel-doron
  3. ↑ http://icsep.org.il/programs/seminars
  4. ↑ https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Reforms-prospects-and-impediments-407623
  5. ↑ https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990012094180205171/NLI
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