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September 26, 2016

Does Israel’s Trade Follow Its Diplomacy?

No, and that’s a good thing.

In recent years, Israel has expanded its economic and diplomatic ties with various countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America—links that could conceivably offset potential damage from an increasingly hostile Europe and a less-than-wholly-supportive U.S. Has Jerusalem, then, deliberately shaped business ties in support of its diplomatic initiatives? Yitzhak Klein and Elisheva Berenbaum argue that in fact the distribution of Israel’s foreign trade has remained relatively static:

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