Civil Service Reform

Israel's civil service suffers from rigid labor relations, low mobility, a poor incentive structure and an inability of managers to assess employee quality and performance. This program seeks to promote an effective, efficient and transparent civil service that draws on the best talent Israel has to offer, promotes its most honest and dedicated employees on the basis of measurable merit on the job and provides outstanding service to the public.

The program is currently working with the Civil Service Commission on a series of proposals for reform of Israel's stagnant civil service. These include development of quantitative and qualitative measures for civil service effectiveness, improved methods for periodic review and assessment of civil servants and incentives for good performance.

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    Daphna Aviram-Nitzan

    Director

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    Daphna Aviram-Nitzan has held the position of Director of the Center for Governance and the Economy since 2016 along with serving as the Director of the annual Eli Hurvitz Conference for Economy and Society.

    Between 2002-2016, Aviram-Nitzan was the Director of the Economic Research division and the Chief Economist at the Manufacturers Association of Israel (MAI) and the economic advisor of the President of the business sector. Before that (1994 – 2002) Daphna served as an economist in several positions in the MAI's research and strategy department. She is the former chairman of the board of directors of Clal Finance-Mutual Funds and currently serves as an External Director of companies in the Israeli capital market.

     

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    Adv. Rita Golstein-Galperin

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    Rita is a senior practitioner in the fields of public policy and innovation, she joined the Institute after holding a variety of senior positions in the public service. Rita founded the Israel's Economic Attaché delegation to the OECD in Paris and led of the exclusive training program, "Civil Service Cadets ".
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    Prof. Yuval Feldman

    Senior Fellow

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    Senior Fellow at the Civil Service Reform Program, the Center for Governance and the Economy

    Professor Yuval Feldman is a full professor at the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University and a former fellow of Institutional Corruption Lab at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

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    Dr. Assaf Shapira

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    Assaf Shapira received a PhD in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Centre d’études européennes (Center for European Studies) at the Sciences po (Paris). His research largely focuses on political representation, political parties, the role of money in politics, and reforms in Israel's public service.

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    Prof. Nathan Sussman

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    Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Climate Change: Israel 2050 and a Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute Geneva

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    Hila Shoef Kollwitz

    Researcher

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    Hila Shoef-Kollwitz is an economics and policy researcher in the Civil Service Reform program, in the Israel Democracy Institute's Center for Governance and the Economyץ She has a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University in the combined program "Philosophy, Economics and Political Science", and a master's degree from Oxford University in the Department of Economic History.

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    Dr. Ariel Finkelstein

    Researcher

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    Dr. Ariel Finkelstein holds s bachelor's degree from the Integrated Program for Philosophy, Economics and Political Science at Hebrew University, and a Master's degree in Public Policy, with a specialization in local government administration and management from Haifa University, as part of the Ministry of Local Government's "Cadets for Local Government" program. He earned his Phd. At the Department of Political Science at Bar Ilan University. His doctorate is on the reciprocal effects of religion and state in Israel, in light of the institutionalization of religious services in the country.

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    Erez Sommer

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    E-mail: erezs@idi.org.il

    Phone: +972-2-530-0XXX

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    Shay Amit

    Research Assistant

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    Shahar Livne

    Research Assistant

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    Research Assistant, Civil Service Reform Program, Center for Governance and the Economy