Opinion Israel Election Results: A National Unity Government Is the Least Worst Outcome
The stock market is looking forward to a Likud-Kahol Lavan tie-up, but a more likely scenario is political paralysis
David Rosenberg
Opinion Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities: Relax, There's Spare Oil Capacity for Everyone
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
Opinion Why the Israeli Economy Won't Get Bibi Votes This Time
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
Opinion Are Syrian Refugees Destined to Be the Palestinians of the 21st Century?
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
Opinion Israelis Have Caught America’s Anti-government Disease
They think the state needs to tackle education and health problems, but Israelis don’t want to pay the taxes to do it
Opinion Two Cheers for the Socially Irresponsible Corporation
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
Opinion What Should Investors Do in These Uncertain Times? Ignore Trump's Tweets
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
Opinion Right-wing Union's Housing Plan: Bribe Israelis Into Becoming Settlers
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
Opinion Israel's Lousy Schools, Lousy Students, Lousy Workers
How mystery goo on a vacuum backs the Bank of Israel's argument that Israel's economic problems begin in the classroom
Opinion If a Global Recession Is Coming, It Will Be Trump’s to Own
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
Opinion Israel Faces Political Deadlock – So Why Are the Markets So Strong?
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?
Opinion Forget Islamists, the IMF Is the Real Danger to the Egyptian Regime
The 1% are thriving under IMF reforms while ordinary people are hurting. This sounds eerily like the situation before Mubarak was toppled in 2011
Opinion The Problem Isn't the Trade Wars, It's Trump
There is a definite risk of economic fallout, but the deeper worry is that the White House is incapable of handling the crisis
Analysis Expect to Be Shocked by Prices on Your Next Vacation to Israel
A week at a top Israeli hotel costs more than in London, for which tourists can blame the strong shekel
Opinion BDS Is a Political Funhouse but in Reality It's Going Nowhere
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
Analysis Is Big Tech’s Problem Competition, or Just a Bad Rep With the Elite?
There are legitimate grievances against Facebook & Co., but the U.S. Justice Department isn’t the one to address them with an antitrust probe
Opinion Lebanon Was Once as Prosperous as Dubai. So Why Is It Now More Like Greece?
The budget is just the leaders' latest effort at pretending things are changing while they barrel towards crisis that will lead to bailout
Opinion Bitcoin Is a Fraud, and Let’s Hope and Pray It Stays That Way
For all the hype about cryptocurrencies, no one except criminals and speculators use it. For once, Trump’s got it right
Opinion China and Israel Will Both Lose From Trump's Trade Wars
China's economy is feeling the pinch and Israel will, too, because the global system under assault from the White House has been a boon to Israel
Opinion From Trump to Erdogan, Populists Are Assaulting Central Banks. What's Stopping Bibi?
Erdogan fired his central banker and Trump is bending his to his will. Israel is safe for now, but only because Netanyahu is preoccupied with the courts
Opinion When Hunger Supplants Religion as the Driver for Middle East Conflict
Strangely enough, Trump may be precipitating this by hastening climate change and disrupting world trade
Opinion What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Could Learn From How Israel Copes With Earthquakes
Lesson 1: No matter how urgent the threat of climate change, even bigger government is not the one and only solution
Opinion An Arab at the Helm of an Israeli Bank? It’s Nothing Less Than a Miracle
Israeli Arabs are ready to join the mainstream economy, but it’s not at all clear the rest of Israel is ready to welcome them
Opinion Cannabis Catch-22: Is Medical Marijuana Israel's Next Big Export, or a Pipe Dream?
Israel has the R&D prowess and global demand is growing, but if there’s really gold in them thar spliffs, others will probably get it
Opinion Trump's Peace Plan: As Deep as a Beauty Pageant Speech and Twice as Vain
The Trump-Kushner excuse for a plan is like Miss America calling for world peace: Who can disagree? But the devil is in the details
Opinion Donald Trump Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Israeli Universities
Israel could be a global center for higher education. America is giving us opportunity by giving overseas students a cold shoulder
Opinion As Its Economy Tanks, Iran May Have to Talk With America
The regime is growing desperate as the forecasts tumble from a bit of growth to deep bear territory, and other options just aren't there
Opinion Nyet, Vladimir: Why Israel Should Stand by Uncle Sam
America will remain ascendant, China and Russia are going nowhere, says an unconventional forecast. Israel should be pondering the implications of the study
Opinion How Did Ronald McDonald Become the Scourge of West Bank Settlers?
The burger chain is being accused of discriminating against them by not opening restaurants over the Green Line. It’s a worrying politicization of Israeli business
Opinion Never Mind the Embassy Move and the Golan, Trump's True Mark in Israel Is on Its Economy
An unemployment office in Tel Aviv, rather than a town in the Golan, might be a more appropriate place to carry the Trump name, since joblessness may well be the president’s most lasting legacy to Israel