Daniel Doron () was an Israeli political activist and translator. He was the founder and director of the

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(ICSEP). In this capacity, he recommended economic changes to the Israeli government, some of which have successfully been implemented. He wrote on the advantages of free market economics for ''

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''. He translated ''

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Biography

Daniel Doron was a third-generation

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. His grandfather, Zerah Barnett, was one of the first Jewish pioneers in Palestine. Doron served Air Force Intelligence during the

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in 1948, and studied sociology and economics at the

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. In the 1960s, Daniel Doron resumed his studies as a Fellow of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, and then with

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and Jacques Barzuz as a visiting scholar at

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. His exposure to economist

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and other free market intellectual forces at the

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greatly influenced him. Later, the philosophies Doron acquired in the United States would lead him to push for free market changes in Israel's anti-competitive, socialist society and economy.

Public service career

He served under

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, then director-general of the Prime Minister's Office. In 1957, Doron was delegated by the Prime Minister's Office to serve as special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. He also served on an economic advisory group for Prime Minister

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and on the Israel Government Council for National and Economic Planning, was a member of the board of the Entrepreneurial Center of

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, and is a member of the Mont-Pelerin Society. Doron was among the founders of The Herzliyah Conference, served on its steering committee and initiated its economic segment.

Political activism

In 1983, Doron founded the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress (ICSEP), a non-profit organization that seeks to increase the competitiveness of the Israeli economy. ICSEP conducts seminars for top Israeli university students to study free market economics and employs respected Israeli economic thinkers to examine Israeli markets in search of anti-competitive inefficiencies. ICSEP under Daniel Doron's leadership recommended for less concentration of ownership in the Israel economy in order to create a more competitive economy.

Art career

Doron was a patron and representative of the artist Shalom of Safed, arranging 15 museum exhibitions. Doron cowrote the film "Shalom of Safed – The Innocent Eye of a Man of Galilee.https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990012094180205171/NLI

References

External links

About Doron at the Kivunim website (Hebrew)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doron, Daniel Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Social Sciences alumni Israeli economists Israeli political writers Public relations people Burials at Menucha Nechona Cemetery 1929 births 2022 deaths