Leaders from five of the biggest political parties sparred over the economy
Thursday during a conference at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv hosted by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Presenting their outlook for how best to manage
Israel’s economy, Labor’s Shelly Yacimovich, Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, Yisrael
Beytenu’s Avigdor Liberman, Tzipi Livni and the Likud’s Yuval Steinitz took to
the stage to make their case to the country’s business elite.
The room
may have been full of political stars, but most of the attention was lavished
upon the middle class, small and medium businesses, lower taxes and dysfunction
in the political system.
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