Economist Shir Hever explains how the Gaza war mobilization propped up a ‘zombie economy’ that appears to function but lacks any future horizon....
Domestic Challenges
The Gaza cease-fire that took effect on Jan. 19 brought Israeli domestic politics back to the fore—and helped remind people just how vulnerable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is politically....
Israel has no constitution, its jurisdiction is unclear, borders have been constantly changing since independence, and the majority of the population of the occupied territories are not citizens of Israel....
This summer, the Nobel laureate Prof Aaron Ciechanover joined a group of prominent Israelis gathered in the ruins of the Nir Oz kibbutz to demand a hostage release and ceasefire deal.
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In response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing he would shut down Al Jazeera in Israel after the Israeli Knesset passed a bill authorizing him to do so, PEN America issued the following statement...
Irwin Cotler, now Canada’s Justice Minister, then a law professor at McGill University, argued, “human rights has emerged as the secular religion of our time, as an organizing idiom of the contemporary political culture...
Several of Europe's largest financial firms have scaled down their links to Israeli companies or those with ties to the country, a Reuters analysis of filings shows, as pressure from activists and governments on Tel Aviv grows to end its war on Gaza.
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The recent approval of an increased budget by Netanyahu's government has sparked internal discontent among settlers, who are burdened with the financial costs of this deficit. Israeli media reported that the government approved an additional $33 billion to the budget, raising the deficit ratio from ...
Israel’s Economy in Crisis: Air Transport and Real Estate Sectors Face Severe Decline Amid Resistanc
The Zionist entity’s economy continues to reel under sustained losses across various sectors, driven by intensified resistance actions, particularly those originating from Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. These strikes have caused widespread disruption in major Israeli-occupied cities, including occupied Y...
As the Israel-Hamas war rages on, the shares of Israelis who see deep conflicts within their society have lessened over the past year...
Some 60 media and rights organizations on Monday urged the the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of “massacring journalists” in Gaza.
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UN experts* today condemned the continued and systematic onslaught of violence committed against Palestinians in Gaza, with most victims being women and children over the past seven months....