Strategic Assessment
The strategic economic objective which the new Israeli government adopts will be geared toward optimally fulfilling its political goals, as these have been agreed upon among the coalition partners upon their entry into the government. In reality, this policy will be affected by a number of limitations. A comprehensive assessment, one which takes these limitations into account, casts in doubt the ability of the government to do much more than stabilize the economic reality it inherited. The opening conditions for the government ג€“ as of the time of this article’s writing ג€“ are difficult and rife with threats, including processes which, given the small size of Israel’s economy, will be difficult or perhaps impossible to affect by means of unilateral government policy alone.