Israel

To combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, covid-19, the Trackvirus application has been developed in Israel to consult in real time the routes taken by infected people. Monday April 13, 2020.Pour lutter contre la propagation de la pandemie du coronavirus, covid-19, l'application Trackvirus a ete develope en israel pour consulter en temps reel les itineraires emprunte par les personnes infectees. Lundi 13 Avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus: Israeli and comparative perspectives

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Rachel Aridor Hershkowitz

August 2020

Flags of Saudi Arabia and China are hung in front of Tiananmen Gate before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Beijing, China February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Podcast Episode

Global China in the Middle East

Lindsey Ford, Bruce Riedel, and Natan Sachs

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

A general view shows a meeting of the Arab League's foreign ministers after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his Middle East peace plan, in Cairo, Egypt, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

External Article

Israel and the Middle East amid U.S.-China competition

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

Monday, July 20, 2020

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

Reports

People walk near the light rail in the centre of Jerusalem October 18, 2015. A surge in Palestinian attacks in Israel is raising concerns that the weakening economy could eventually be pushed into recession. Picture taken October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

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's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at The Prime Minister's Israeli Innovation Summit in Tel Aviv, Israel October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC126FB37470

Israel

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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Events

Israeli annexation and the future of Palestine

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM AST

“Cause of Death” – A film screening and panel discussion with the director

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM EST

Democracy, nationalism and populism: The US, Israel, and beyond

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Experts

Eyal Tsir Cohen

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Visiting Fellow - Brookings Doha Center

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Director - Center for Middle East Policy

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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Multimedia

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

Podcast Episode

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

Natan Sachs and Adrianna Pita

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauds as he and U.S. President Donald Trump deliver joint remarks on a Middle East peace plan proposal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

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

Highlights: Experts discuss the tensions between populist, nationalist, and democratic impulses

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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