Month: February 2011

Not many outside the country are taking notice of Israel’s economic commotion. While the world watches fascinated as history is made in Egypt, the Israeli economy is experiencing a moment of indecision that tells us much about the country’s social and political tensions. In January, the government raised the price of gasoline to a historic high

Israel has been watching spellbound as events unfold in Egypt. Overall, for the friends of Egypt in Israel, the exciting possibility that we observe the birth pangs of a more democratic order wrestles with the frightening prospect that Egypt may shift from a pillar of anti-Islamism to something less dependable. As I write, the situation in