Russia’s Alliance with Hizballah Is Growing Stronger
From fighting side by side in Syria to diplomacy and finance.
May 30, 2023
How Israel’s Welfare State Drives Thousands of Orthodox Men Out of the Workforce
Perverse incentives.
On Wednesday, the Knesset passed its annual budget—but not, of course, without much negotiating and public controversy. One issue that made a number of headlines in Israel’s mainstream press involved the size of various allocations to the ḥaredi sector, the product of the inevitable commitments any government makes to the smaller parties in its coalition. Analyzing the latest statistics on these expenditures, Haviv Rettig Gur shows the perverse and damaging incentives they create for those they are meant to benefit:
May 30, 2023
How Israel’s Welfare State Drives Thousands of Orthodox Men Out of the Workforce
Perverse incentives.
The Torah and the American Founding
Replacing the Crosses on the Gravestones of American Jews Who Died Fighting Fascism
Operation Benjamin.
Genetic Studies Link Modern Israeli Grapes to Their Biblical Forebears
Whites and reds.