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Comparative analysis of different nations' sociai or domestic policies is always difficuit. Clearly, this is true with respect to a review of the israeii and American experience regarding Project Renewai and Modei Cities. Our institutions are different, our politics are different, our economies work in dissimiiar ways, and our populations and areas are often unique to their respective native lands. Whiie cut from the same doth regarding broad sociai weifare purposes. Model Cities and Project Renewai refiect significant administrative differences and equaiiy significant differences concerning funding and iocal decision making. Both programs began as programs targeted to distress-people and neighborhoods. Both depended for success on public entrepreneurs in the public sector who could aggressiveiy search out non-public monies or non-federal money. Both programs argued for the appropriateness of involvement of numerous groups in the pianning.But subtie differences make easy comparisons less than appropriate. For example, the israeii poiiticai system seems abie to sustain targeting of iimited resources ionger than our own. Our Modei Cities program iasted as a focused program for iess than ten years; the israeii effort appears to be headed for a much ionger existence. American and israeii ieadership regarding each program also appears to take different routes. Whiie no studies have been done, we suspect that most successfui Modei City ieaders erKJed up in the private sector. They quickiy converted their skiiis at negotiating and brokering for pubiic resources to higher paying jobs in American enterprise, israeii experience seems to suggest a longer set of "on the job" experiences. Finally, the test of success of the American Model Cities program quickiy was converted into product reiated measures-how many jobs, housing units, etc. We suspect from hearing and reading our israeii colleagues that "process" was and remains an arguable product in and of itseif in Israel. Put another way, the israeii poiiticai system seems to be more patient than the American one. But, as we

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