Analysis How Israel’s Powerful, Well-connected Institutions Are Jumping the Vaccine Line

The task of prioritizing who would receive the coronavirus vaccine when was done in an entirely professional way. What followed was something else

Analysis Israel's Lockdown Calculus: Saving as Few as 500 Lives Will Cost $8 Billion

That’s the price the coronavirus cabinet agreed to pay by imposing a third lockdown

Analysis Why Local Lockdowns Failed to Curb COVID-19 in Israel

From reckless elected officials to rebellious populations, Israel has a problem with compliance

Analysis Has the Coronavirus Really Been the Disaster We Feared?

Israel paid a high price, but looking at excess deaths, the answer is not so much. In any case, even years from now, scientists and medical professionals will continue to argue about what actually happened in 2020

Analysis Can Israel Actually Meet Netanyahu's Ambitious COVID-19 Vaccine Target?

First shipment already arrived, but getting it 
into millions of arms is a vastly complicated business

Analysis Israel's Greatest Achievement in the Coronavirus Fight Came When Netanyahu Stepped Aside

Avoiding concentrated power in the hands of Netanyahu and the Health Ministry allowed a decentralized network to efficiently boost testing rates

Without Jobs or Education, Israel's Young Arabs Turn to Crime

The crime rate in Arab communities has jumped 50% in the past five years, while the homicide rate among Arabs is seven times the rate among Jews, data shows

Analysis Israel's Government Can't See Beyond Constant Lockdowns. But There's Another Way

'If there were 100,000 tests a day, we would never need a lockdown,' says one public health expert who argues that the economy should stay open during the coronavirus outbreak

Analysis Moderna's COVID Vaccine Progress Is Good News, but Israel's Not Out of the Woods Yet

In theory, the Moderna contract should have been much more balanced and reasonable than the Pfizer deal, but this isn’t quite the case

Netanyahu Celebrates Deal, but Pfizer 'Keeps Right to Do Anything It Wants' With COVID Vaccine

The agreement for four million coronavirus vaccines is more of a statement of intent than a legally binding deal. Netanyahu has taken full credit, but there are no sanctions if Pfizer reneges

Analysis Pfizer's Coronavirus Vaccine Progress Is Good News for the World, Less So for Israel

Israel currently has purchase agreements with two other companies, Moderna and Arcturus, and there’s no guarantee either will deliver a safe and effective COVID vaccine product. But there's some hope

Israel in Talks With Pfizer After It Announces Major Progress on Coronavirus Vaccine

Although deals were struck with other producers, Pfizer could still meet Israel's relatively small demand of 2 to 4 million vaccine doses

Analysis How Did Schools Become the Israeli Economy's Coronavirus Babysitter?

At least the ultra-Orthodox understand the value of keeping schools open for the sake of the children, not just to let parents return to work

Analysis Nursing Home Residents Put at Risk by Staff Who Were Sent to Work While Sick

Employees infected with coronavirus sent to work because manpower shortage left no choice, Health Ministry admits

Analysis Israel Needs to Wise Up and Open Schools

COVID-19 serological surveys were poorly conducted, while actual school data shows how to manage the risk

Analysis This City's Success Is Proof Israeli Coronavirus Czar's 'Traffic Light' Plan Works

But by foregoing differential treatment in favor of a national lockdown, Netanyahu is punishing communities that rallied to fight the virus – and ruining the incentive to do better

Israel on Cusp of Plan for Exiting Coronavirus Lockdown

Officials still debating fine points of plan slated to go to coronavirus cabinet next week

Opinion Protests Should Be Restricted While Israel Wages War Against the Coronavirus

Analysis Coronavirus Won't Destroy the Israeli Economy, but Netanyahu’s Hysteria Could

The prime minister has shown no interest in weighing risks properly, and is determined to tighten coronavirus lockdown no matter what

Analysis Why Haredi Willingness to Contract COVID Could Bankrupt Israel

The coronavirus is the latest example of a long-term act of self-destruction

Analysis Israel’s Economy Has Survived the Resurgent Coronavirus, for Now

The recovery from the first lockdown was impressive. But the second lockdown and the growing political chaos could deal a fatal blow this time

Analysis Israel Could Have Made a Bigger Effort to Avoid a Devastating Coronavirus Lockdown

Less draconian measures failed because the state did little to enforce them. Instead, the economy now faces paralysis

Analysis Israel Is Heading Down Lebanon's Failed State Trajectory

Looking at finance, health, employment and defense, Israel is on a concerning path

Analysis Ultra-Orthodox Rebellion Threatens the Fight Against the Coronavirus

Prof. Ronni Ganzu has to do whatever he can to prevent a nationwide lockdown until the High Holy Days begin

Analysis Netanyahu and His Finance Minister Are Bringing Israel Down in a Race to the Bottom

Fiscal policy is out of control as the two men compete for who can spend more irresponsibly, and it's citizens who will pay the price

Analysis Better Than Herod? Israel's Finance Minister Is Bringing the Country to the Abyss

Finance Minister Yisrael Katz last week compared himself to the legendary ruler. But he and 
his boss, Netanyahu, are wreckers, not builders when it comes to fiscal policy and government

Israel Pours Billions Into Employment but Has No Idea How Many Are Jobless

The CBS counted 427,000 unemployed Israelis, the National Insurance Institute 500,000, and the Employment Bureau 880,000

Analysis Netanyahu’s Policy Is ‘Let Me Die With the Philistines.’ Except We’re the Philistines

Prime minister’s insistence on managing the coronavirus crisis alone, while undermining government’s decision-making processes brought us to the failure of the second wave

Analysis Know What It’s Like to Be Jobless? Most Israelis Don’t, but They Better Start

The coronavirus threatens to leave long-term unemployment in its wake, and the government is only starting to think about how to cope with it