Report: Israel's middle class lives like the West's working class

Left-leaning think tank Adva Center finds that the image of suburban family with two cars is far from reality.

By Hila Weissberg | 16:53 28.01.13 |

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yes, but you are NOT the west...get real...
- By BEAR JEW
- 29 Jan 2013
- 01:49PM
in a country of 7 million, if you cant find a good job, if you cant educate yourself properly, in the best high tech country in the world per capita, then you're just a foolish lazy moron....stop relying on the state to make you succeed...its the lazy tel aviv cocktails circuit idiots that are wishing you were americans getting a safety net from barack obama...buzz off..go get a job...go work...stop your whining...
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- By joe
- 29 Jan 2013
- 00:09PM
'But when the votes granting Lapid 19 seats were counted, it turned out that the majority of them hadn’t come from the middle class, but from the upper classes. Lapid won big in most of Israel's affluent towns, like Caesarea, Ramat Hasharon, Kfar Shmaryahu and Savyon.' speaking of majority, if all elugible voters in the above town voted for lapid he would receive 1-2 mandates there. the rest would still have to come from large cities with mixed population. in israel, by middle class we usually mean taxpayers, eg. people who earn enough to pay taxes, who also bear the burden of the army service. regarding the ashkenzim vs. new immigrants vs. mizrahim vs. arabs. the last group has significantly larger families. there is no way they can compete with the other groups in the standard of living if you have 2-3 more children than the rest.
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