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What would you actually sign into law if you held the finance minister's pen tomorrow morning? This episode builds a seven-bill reform program targeting the specific mechanisms that make Israeli household goods cost 40% more than European equivalents while poverty sits at 20.9% — the highest in the OECD. From import oligopolies that function as private taxes to an Israel Land Authority that engineers housing scarcity, each proposed law targets a concrete lever rather than a symptom. The diagnosis: Israel has the highest market concentration in the OECD, and that concentration extracts value from every household budget. The prescription: competition shocks, land reform, and incentive flips that don't require building anything new — just removing permission slips that shouldn't exist.