Month: March 2020

Pundits and policymakers act as though solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is like playing Risk. They manufacture formulas with the single-minded purpose of arriving at a predetermined outcome — a two-state solution — and ignore everything the Palestinians have said or done over the last century that is inconsistent with their desired result. The Palestinians, however, […]

As the world continues to combat COVID-19 novel coronavirus, millions in Africa and the Middle East are expected to also be hit with the ever-worsening desert locust crisis, which experts say has the ability to grow at an unprecedented rate due to favorable breeding conditions triggered by climate change. The desert locust, dubbed “the most […]

  By: Kyra Rauschenbach Contributors: Katherine Lawlor and Brandon Wallace This analysis is co-published by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. [Notice: The Institute for the Study of War and the Critical Threats Project frequently cite sources from foreign domains. All such links are identified with […]

Deal on 3-year rotation agreement would have legal safeguards in place to ensure Netanyahu hands over power; several serious disagreements could still torpedo plan By TOI staff Today, 10:58 pm   Likud and the Blue and White party are closing in on an agreement to form an emergency unity government, with a rotation as prime […]

Chris Mooney, Sarah Kaplan and Min Joo Kim, The Washington Post Published 1:51 pm EDT, Thursday, March 19, 2020 With more than 200,000 coronavirus cases worldwide and thousands of deaths, a striking pattern is appearing in the hardest-hit countries: More men are dying than women. No where is this trend more pronounced than in Italy. Men […]

Khaled Abu ToamehMarch 20, 2020 at 5:00 am On March 18, Israel delivered hundreds of kits for detecting the coronavirus into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, together with equipment for medical protection. This is the same Gaza Strip from which Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have been firing thousands of rockets at Israel for the […]

Prof Yehuda Carmeli on how exactly the virus is transmitted, why it’s so contagious, whether Israel has the right strategy, how long we’ll be fighting it… and how many will die Professor Yehuda Carmeli is head of the Department of Epidemiology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and a professor at the Sackler School […]