Analysis Israel Is Heading Down Lebanon's Failed State Trajectory
Looking at finance, health, employment and defense, Israel is on a concerning path
Meirav Arlosoroff
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
Analysis Israel Is Going to Pay a Heavy Price for Its Fiscal Follies, and This Top Official Knows It
The treasury's accountant general doesn't want to be there when Israel's credit rating is lowered, and that's why he's stepping down
Analysis Israel Lost Control of the Coronavirus Crisis. There's Only One Thing It Can Do Now
No data, no organization, no plan: Only the world's best governments managed to weather the crisis. Israel now has to learn from them
Analysis Israel’s First Line of Defense Against the Coronavirus Pandemic Held. But Next Time?
Old age homes did a pretty good job of containing the virus during the first wave of the virus
U.S.-based Helmsley Trust Says Israeli Hospital Paid Illicit $2m Fee, Asks for Part of Donation Back
Commission paid to Barzilai Medical Center's fundraising firm violates terms of donation
Health Ministry Is Only Seeing the Tip of Israel's Coronavirus Iceberg
Its testing policy has been too limited to gauge the real size of the pandemic
Analysis Why No One Can Explain the Drop in Coronavirus Cases in Israel
Policy decisions were based on contagion models developed by physicists and mathematicians ‒ not epidemiologists, and no one predicted the number of new coronavirus cases would in fact fall once the lockdown was lifted
Analysis Israel’s New Finance Minister May Be the Bulldozer We Need
The coronavirus exposed Israel’s shortcomings and creates a window of opportunity for reforms. Yisrael Katz just may be the one to lead them
Analysis Inventing Roles, Dividing Government Arms, Netanyahu Proves to Be a Horrible Manager
It's no surprise that Israel's ineffective government is ranked among the weakest among the developed nations
Analysis In Israel's New Government, Ministries Are Disposable Goods – Use Once, Throw It Away
The crude sacking by Miri Regev of her ministry's director general was just one example of how this isn't politics as usual
Some Odd Coronavirus Advice From Israel’s Virus Experts
The team advising the National Security Council often made suggestions with no basis in fact
Analysis Israel Can’t Prevent the World From Noticing Its Fiscal Failure, Amplified by Coronavirus Crisis
Netanyahu’s managerial mediocrity has hamstrung Israel’s ability to deal with the coronavirus, leading credit rating agency Moody’s to lower the country’s outlook to Stable from Positive
Analysis Why Do So Few Israelis With Coronavirus Symptoms Go Into Quarantine in Time?
The Health Ministry’s cumbersome testing system takes far too long to deliver results
Israeli Academics Propose a Return to Work Now, in Groups Divided by Risk
Team of experts say 1.5 million Israelis could go back to the office, with strict controls to remain in place on certain areas
Analysis Israel Should Fight the Coronavirus With a Scalpel, Not a Sledgehammer
An experiment with continual monitoring at Israel Aerospace shows the way. But Health Ministry isn’t interested
Analysis If Israel Tightens Coronavirus Lockdown Further, It Will Risk a Total Collapse
Some $39 billion of possible lost GDP translates into hundreds or thousands of people potentially committing suicide
Israel Predicts Up to 40,000 Coronavirus Patients May Die. What if There’s a Way to Avoid This?
This forecast is predicated on the current situation, after the country has been put in a partial shutdown for a week
There’s No Coronavirus Credit Crisis, Banks Are Lending, Bank of Israel Officials Assert
Demand for loans is growing and lending rates are rising as lockdown hits business, but banks are granting credit as per regulators’ suggestions
Analysis Lack of Coronavirus Testing in Israel Will Cost Us All Dearly
Doctors and academics are begging to help the coronavirus testing effort but the Health Ministry’s refusal is bringing us closer to total shutdown of the economy
Analysis Officials Warn Lockdown Will Cost the Israeli Economy Very Dearly
As government debates more severe measures to contain the coronavirus, they warn the damage could be akin to the impact of the Yom Kippur War
Analysis Can Netanyahu Be Trusted to Manage the Coronavirus Crisis?
Suspicions about political conflicts of interest haven’t been proved, but there's plenty of reason to worry. That casts a pall over the whole process
Business, Unions Anxious About Economy After Coronavirus Quarantine Order
Treasury sees quarantines, drop in air cargo costing billions of shekels
Analysis Israel Is Marching Into a Coronavirus Recession With No Armor
The legacy of the Netanyahu years is a large budget deficit that will leave the government unable to launch fiscal policies to counter a downturn
Analysis Israel's Election Is Over. Now, Where’s the Money to Pay for the Promises?
The cupboard is bare and coronavirus looms large, but politicians vowed no new taxes