The EU ruling on labeling settlement products elicited a hysterical reaction from the Israeli right, which wants to pretend there is no border between Israel and the occupied territories
New statistics show that the ultra-Orthodox minority is growing fast: Israel can’t afford to let them stay mired in unemployment and poverty
Probably not, but Saudi investors are being given a compelling case to pony up for the oil giant’s stock at whatever price the crown prince wants
Report released Monday shows the Middle East to be an economic shambles, but as far as Israel is concerned, it could be happening on another planet. They don't want us and we don’t need them
The people in power who created the crisis have too much invested in the system to abandon it in the face of mass protests, and they have no plans of leaving
Beijing may prefer to stick to business and leave the politics to others, but as America relinquishes its role as the world's policeman, the New Middle East may find it has a new master
Somehow the Istanbul Stock Exchange doesn't seem to be asking how their fearless leader plans to extract economic prosperity from occupied territory
Now the president is threatening Turkey, but it’s a tool that only works when it’s used judiciously. That’s not a word Trump seems to be familiar with.
The region’s economic prospects look increasingly bleak and the governments are incapable of coping with them
National unity wouldn't necessarily fix Israel's burgeoning deficit and a Moody's report hints at growing anxiety in the markets about Israel’s political stalemate
Now goat of the year, he saw the future of office work and acted on it. A pity that the business of renting office space is no more glamorous than it was in the past
The Saudi crown prince is gonna make you a share offering you can’t refuse — and that’s the start of the problem
The stock market is looking forward to a Likud-Kahol Lavan tie-up, but a more likely scenario is political paralysis
The latest attack did lower supply, which was too high to begin with. But things will have to get much worse before there's a real shortage
Israel has done so well in the last 15 years that voters take the good times for granted, being driven by other things, such as fear and hate, instead
The civil war in Syria is winding down but there's no sign that they're welcome back, which is a problem for their host countries
They think the state needs to tackle education and health problems, but Israelis don’t want to pay the taxes to do it
Let’s hope that the U.S. CEOs who said they want to stop focusing solely on the bottom line don’t take themselves too seriously
The correlation between what he says and what the White House does is not very strong, so there’s no reason to hang on every word he says
Yamina's housing program purports to be about solving the affordability problem, but it’s nothing more than a way of luring people over the Green Line. Thankfully, it’s a non-starter
How mystery goo on a vacuum backs the Bank of Israel's argument that Israel's economic problems begin in the classroom
The president’s trade war is responsible for the growing worries over the economy. His fiscal policies will deprive him of the tools to counter it
Foreign investors and Israel’s rich aren’t bailing out, they’re bailing in. Why is the shekel strengthening when all the polls predict the end of the Netanyahu era?
The 1% are thriving under IMF reforms while ordinary people are hurting. This sounds eerily like the situation before Mubarak was toppled in 2011
There is a definite risk of economic fallout, but the deeper worry is that the White House is incapable of handling the crisis
A week at a top Israeli hotel costs more than in London, for which tourists can blame the strong shekel
The reality around the boycott movement has been distorted beyond recognition - it’s neither anti-Semitic nor has any consequence, and certainly not worth the time of 435 Congresspeople
There are legitimate grievances against Facebook & Co., but the U.S. Justice Department isn’t the one to address them with an antitrust probe
The budget is just the leaders' latest effort at pretending things are changing while they barrel towards crisis that will lead to bailout
For all the hype about cryptocurrencies, no one except criminals and speculators use it. For once, Trump’s got it right