Free-Market Economy and Lowered Cost of Living
The state takes too much from you and gives too little in return. Zehut wants to reverse this — lower taxes, less bureaucracy, and more money in your pocket.
You wake up in the morning, work hard all day, and at the end of the month you ask yourself: where did all the money go? A huge chunk of it went to the state — in taxes, fees, and inflated prices on products the government "protects" from competition. This isn't our destiny: It's a choice.
Zehut believes in a simple idea: your money works far better in your hands than in the hands of bureaucrats. That's why we fight for deep tax cuts, breaking up monopolies that make your life more expensive, and opening the market to real competition — so prices go down instead of up.
For young couples, the solution to the housing crisis isn't more subsidies that keep prices high; instead, it's freeing up land and dramatically shortening building procedures in order to create real supply. And if you're self-employed or dreaming of starting a business — you deserve its being easy to open a business in Israel, not a bureaucratic obstacle course of forms and regulations.
A free-market economy isn't just a slogan. It's the difference between a state that you serve — and a state that serves you.
What We Will Do
- Dismantle import barriers and slash tariffs that drive up the cost of living.
- Fight monopolies and cartels — with real action, not just words.
- Dramatically simplify bureaucracy and regulation.
- Dismantle the Israel Land Authority and release land to the free market for construction.
Questions and Answers on the Economy
What is Zehut's economic approach?
Zehut supports a free-market economy and reducing government intervention. Instead of more budgets and increased centralization, Zehut believes Israel should dramatically cut taxes and regulations in order to increase competition, lower the cost of living and return money and power to the people.
How does Zehut propose to lower the cost of living?
By opening markets to competition, removing import barriers and monopolies, and cutting the bureaucracy that drives up prices for goods and services. When the state stops “protecting” monopolies, prices go down.
What is Zehut's solution to the housing crisis for young couples?
Free up land from the government monopoly and shortening planning and construction procedures. Instead of more subsidies that inflate the cost of housing, increasing the supply of land and the speed of construction will bring prices down.
How does Zehut view self-employed people and small businesses?
The self-employed fuel the nation's economic growth. Zehut wants to dramatically ease their burden — lower taxes, fewer forms, less regulation — to make it easy to open and run a business in Israel.
What is Zehut's position on the tax burden?
Israel's tax burden is too high and hurts the middle class and young people the most. Zehut supports broad tax cuts, based on the belief that money in the hands of the citizen works far better than money in the hands of a bureaucrat.