Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to deliver a statement during a news conference in Jerusalem September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RC164DDDFFF0

Order from Chaos

The end of Netanyahu’s unchecked reign

Friday, September 20, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool - RC1C73A8EBF0

Podcast Episode

Is Netanyahu out as Israel’s prime minister?

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a weekly cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1F98CAE7A0

Israel

What might the close election projections mean for Netanyahu’s political future?

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1ABFF59380

Order from Chaos

Israeli elections redux: What you need to know

Friday, September 13, 2019

Reports

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

A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem, near the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - RC1D250522B0

The Palestinian Territories

How the peace process killed the two-state solution

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Blog Posts

U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen in a combination from file photos. REUTERS/File Photos - RC166537AA60

Order from Chaos

A lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair

Monday, August 19, 2019

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrive at Manama's Four Seasons hotel, the venue for the U.S.-hosted "Peace to Prosperity" conference, in Manama, Bahrain, June 25, 2019. REUTERS/Matt Spetalnick - RC1A6E554E00

Order from Chaos

Brookings experts assess White House Middle East economic plan

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

A boy rides on a motorbike as he drives past Palestinian flags at Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Aziz Taher - RC1896B964D0

Order from Chaos

Trump’s economic proposal is an opportunity in disguise

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Events

Democracy under stress: Shared values, common challenges

9:30 AM - Thursday May 30, 2019 5:30 PM IDT

Jerusalem, Israel

Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, From Balfour to Trump

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Israel’s elections and India: A discussion with Or Vazana

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Experts

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Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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Multimedia

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood take part in a sit-in against the Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner's visit to Jordan, near the U.S. Embassy, in Amman, Jordan, May 28, 2019. Picture taken May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - RC16915627A0

Podcast Episode

Will the Bahrain workshop lead to progress on Middle East peace?

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policewoman over the removal of a Palestinian tent whose owners said they were informed by the Israeli forces that they didnt obtain a permit to erect the tent, in Susiya village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma - RC15417709C0

Podcast Episode

Is the Israeli-Palestinian peace process dead?

Khaled Elgindy and Tamara Cofman Wittes

Friday, April 19, 2019

A combination picture shows Benny Gantz (left), leader of Blue and White party voting at a polling station in Rosh Ha'ayin and Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voting at a polling station in Jerusalem during Israel's parliamentary election April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Nir Elias, Ariel Schalit/Pool via REUTERS - RC122F5D90F0

Podcast Episode

Israel’s election result and what comes next

Natan Sachs and Ilana Dayan

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

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