Henry George Association of Israel • אגודת הנרי ג׳ורג׳ - ישראל

29/10/2023

In the midst of these difficult days, we take a moment to remember the passing of Henry George on October 29 1897, 126 years ago to this day. His death came just four days before the New York City mayoral election for which he campaigned until the end.
Commentators at the time disagreed on whether it was the largest funeral in New York history or the largest since the death of Abraham Lincoln. So much so, did the principles of Economic Justice that he laid out in his book "Progress and Poverty" touch and inspire people at the time.
We think about how, had his principles of the socialization of land and natural resource rents become a lived reality where we would be now, and continue to aspire and yearn for the healing of the world and the brotherhood of man.

07/02/2023

https://youtu.be/LFlAA9prYAY

Land Monopoly must clear! "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the Boys are marching" 1910) is a protest song, traditionally sung by the Georgist movement in the United Ki...

17/08/2022

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Mayor Moshe Lion wants to preserve the village of Lifta and transform it into a World Heritage Site

30/06/2022

The accepted convention is that in order to maintain a decent standard of living, households need to spend no more than 30% of their disposable income on housing.

What happens when it's more than 50%...where does one go from there?

This paper looks at Vienna's policy for housing for all as an example to build a system where every resident of Israel benefits from access to stable, quality housing, and at the same time, maximum freedom to choose where to live, without having their future burdened by heavy debt and huge expenses.

Do you think social housing plays a role in Henry George's ideas? Is there a way to have housing that is owned 'socially' but still governed by the market?

המסמך בוחן את האפשרויות ליישום מדיניות של 'דיור לכל' בישראל, וזאת באמצעות השוואה ולמידה ממדיניות הדיור האוניברסלי הנהוגה כיום בווינה, עיר הבירה של אוסטריה

24/06/2022

מחירי השכירות בישראל עלו בקצב כזה ששכר הדירה תופס לפחות 50% מהשכר של האנשים. מה הפתרון? חוזרים הביתה להורים? צריך למצוא אפשרות בת קיימא ועמידה לאורך זמן. צעירים ברחבי הארץ יוצאים למחות על מחירי השכירות שמשפיעים על כולם.
יותם הרפז, בן 23 מראש פינה, מסביר מדוע הוא שוהה כעת באוהל בשדרות רוטשילד, תל אביב עד שיימצא פתרון לכולם לזכות לחיות חיים בכבוד ולהתפרנס ולשלם את שכר הדירה.

Rental prices in Israel have increased at such a rate that rent is taking up at least 50% of people's salaries. What's the solution? Going home to your parents? A sustainable and long lasting option needs to be found. Young people around the country are coming out to protest rental prices that are affecting everyone.
Yotam Harpaz, 23 from Rosh Pina, explains why he is now staying in a tent on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv until a solution is found for all to have the right to live an honorable life and to make a living and be able to pay their rent.

יותם הרפז, בן 23 מספר למה יוצאים לשדרה להפגין

26/01/2022

When the economic system of a state ( and of the planet) does not follow the natural law that land and its revenue is common and labour and its revenue is private, then crime and corruption increases, for it is the only way to survive and get ahead.

Jewish state ranked 29th out of 37 OECD countries; watchdog head: ‘corruption phenomenon in Israel strengthening;’ study published on day ex-minister pleads guilty to tax offenses

16/11/2021

https://fb.watch/9jmin6jmGD/

30/10/2021

How does every one of ten billion voices of ours get heard in the world conversation?

" The technology to achieve and implement the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals and ultimately heal the planet already exist and are being talked about over millions of world-zoom-conversations daily. The barrier is only in our misunderstanding of what is public and what is private ownership, how to collectively spread the responsibility and how to individually take responsibility.

When we can release ourselves from this tiny, giant obstacle, our individual voices will find their definition and pitch among the whole and everything will be possible. "

From the blog of Miriam Waltz at The Times of Israel

14/02/2021

Did you ever think how curious that is?

I'm stealing another video from Nate Blair and uploading a better version. Nate only had a couple angles of the segment recorded on audience smartphones, bu...

11/02/2021

"Herzl...envisioned the future Jewish state to be a "third way" between capitalism and socialism, with a developed welfare program and public ownership of the main natural resources. Industry, agriculture and trade were organized on a cooperative basis. Along with many other progressive Jews of the day, such as Emma Lazarus, Louis Brandeis, Albert Einstein, and Franz Oppenheimer, Herzl desired to enact the land reforms proposed by the American political economist Henry George. Specifically, they called for a land value tax. He called his mixed economic model "Mutualism", a term derived from French utopian socialist thinking. Women would have equal voting rights—as they had in the Zionist movement from the Second Zionist Congress onwards."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl

https://www.progress.org/articles/land-in-ancient-israel-and-early-zionism

The ills of stratification and sectarianism can be alleviated when we acknowledge that land is under a jurisdiction that is more sacred than its commodification.