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Israel Center
Yossie Hollander, Joel Kurtzman and Roger Conway
Discussing oil substitutes at a recent Financial Innovations Lab are, from left, Yossie Hollander of the Israeli Institute for Economic Planning, Joel Kurtzman of the Milken Institute, and Roger Conway of Growth Energy. Labs have tackled numerous issues in Israel, including protecting cultural heritage and cleaning up waterways.
Anath Levin and Shouky Oren
The Israel Center plays a key role in the Milken Institute Global Conference, with Israel-related panels and private events. In this 2010 session, Anath Levin, left, of Bank Hapoalim, and Shouky Oren, Israel's Accountant General, discuss what other nations can learn from Israel's economic stability during the downturn.
The Milken Institute's Israel Center accelerates and supports Israel's path toward economic independence and broad-based prosperity through capital-market development, financial innovation and job creation.

Poverty, income polarization, infrastructure underdevelopment and economic gaps threaten the Israel's social cohesion. If Israel can build on the momentum of recent economic reforms, the country will be less dependent on aid and fund raising as it relies more on the investment and productivity of its own financial, human and social capital.

The Milken Institute Israel Center specializes in:

  • Promoting public-private partnerships, as well as private-sector engagement for job, income and wealth creation. We bring together Diaspora-Israeli teams and individuals from business, academia and government to develop policy recommendations and solutions.

  • Identifying and introducing creative and alternative financial innovations for Israel's economic development.

  • Developing student and professional exchanges, and supervising postgraduate work on such topics as corporate finance, environmental finance and the Community Reinvestment Act. The Koret-Milken Institute Fellows Program has been successful at influencing policy innovations at the municipal, regional and national levels. Read more at http://www.kmifellows.org.
  • Read the Milken Institute Israel Center Newsletter and e-mail updates

    For more information, view a summary of the Israel Center.

    Contact:
    Glenn Yago
    Director
    (310) 570-4640
    gyago@milkeninstitute.org

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    Financing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Banking Competition
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    Financial Innovations for Freshwater Revitalization: Transboundary Project Finance in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority (Hebrew)
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    2008

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    Accelerating Medical Solutions in Israel: Building a Global Life Science Industry (Hebrew)
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    2000

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    1999

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    1998

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