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Avi Weiss is the President of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. He has been a member of the senior faculty of Bar-Ilan University since 1988 and served as Chair of the Economics Department (2005 and 2008). Weiss is the editor of The Economic Quarterly – the journal of the Israel Economic Association – and is an associate editor of Economic Inquiry. Weiss served as Chief Economist and Deputy General Director of the Israel Antitrust Authority (2003-2005) and has served as a member of several important governmental committees in Israel.
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