Israel

A visitor gets his temperature measured as he wears a face mask at a fashion shopping center in Ashdod, as restrictions over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ease around Israel, May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

TechStream

How Israel’s COVID-19 mass surveillance operation works

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Rachel Aridor Hershkowitz

Monday, July 6, 2020

A boy covered with a Palestinian flag rides a bicycle during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in the Palestinian village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

The Palestinian Territories

How Palestinians can reunite under a new agenda to counter Israel’s annexation

Salam Fayyad

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Palestinian Americans and supporters demonstrate against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

Order from Chaos

What Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan

Shibley Telhami

Monday, June 29, 2020

A Jewish settler wearing a Jewish prayer shawl stands at the entrance to a temporary structure in the Jewish settler outpost of Maoz Ester in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

Israel is about to reveal its West Bank annexation plans. How will Congress respond?

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Reports

Israel

A growth strategy for the Israeli economy

Zvi Eckstein, Avihai Lifschitz, and Sarit Menahem-Carmi

April 2020

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after their meeting in Jerusalem February 19, 2019. Ariel Schalit /Pool via REUTERS *** Local Caption *** - RC16E22BC130

Report

Is Israel in democratic decline?

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud

March 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Pavel Golovkin/Pool - RC19885B9FF0

Middle East & North Africa

The new geopolitics of the Middle East: America’s role in a changing region

Jeffrey Feltman, Samantha Gross, Martin Indyk, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, Natan Sachs, Amanda Sloat, Angela Stent, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Bruce Jones

January 2019

Israel

Addressing Israel's growing demand for skills in the developing world

Dany Bahar

December 2018

Smoke rises during an Israeli air strike in Gaza, November 12, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot - RC1B4F7D7DE0

U.S. Foreign Policy

Ending Gaza’s perpetual crisis: A new U.S. approach

Hady Amr, Ilan Goldenberg, Kevin Huggard, and Natan Sachs

December 2018

Blog Posts

People enjoy themselves at a restaurant as some businesses reopened at the end of last month under a host of new rules, following weeks of shutdown amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Tel Aviv, Israel June 4, 2020. Picture taken June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: Israel reopens, but the risks persist

Natan Sachs

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in Jerusalem, Israel on May 13, 2020. Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday (13) for a lightning visit during the which will talk about the Iran issue and the proposed annexation by the occupied West Bank.

Order from Chaos

Israel’s annexation puzzle in the age of great power competition

Eyal Tsir Cohen

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a protective mask due to the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem June 7, 2020. Menahem Kahana/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

TechStream

Technosurveillance mission creep in Israel’s COVID-19 response

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

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FILE PHOTO: Traffic moves past a Blue and White party election campaign poster, depicting party leader Benny Gantz, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, Israel February 18, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo

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What does the Gantz-Netanyahu coalition government mean for Israel?

Natan Sachs and Adrianna Pita

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

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Podcast Episode

What does Trump’s Middle East plan mean for Israel and Palestine?

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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Order from Chaos

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Israeli annexation and the future of Palestine

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