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Prof. Esteban Klor, a professor of economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior researcher at INSS (Institute for National Security Studies), points out that until the outbreak of war in October last year, the defense budget had fallen steadily to 4% of GDP. "The consequences of a continued high defense budget are significant, because it comes at the expense of...

Israel’s economy could shrink even more than that, based on a worst-case estimate by the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. Even in a more benign scenario, its researchers also see Israel’s gross domestic product per head — which in recent years overtook the United Kingdom’s — falling this year, as Israel’s population grows faster than the economy...

At the start of the week, the Institute for National Security Studies published a document titled "Consequences of Continued War on Israel's Economy: Three Scenarios." The document, authored by researchers Tomer Fadlon, Esteban Klor, and Ofer Shelah, examines the potential impacts on Israel's economy if the current situation persists, if there is a comprehensive arrangement...

No matter how much the country increases its defense budget, it will not be enough to bring security to Israel, former Institute for National Security Studies executive director Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg said on Tuesday. This security is dependent on a diplomatic process, he added.

Residents have fled the region by the tens of thousands. If they decide it will never be safe enough to return home, "it will affect the economy in these places in the long run in a way that could definitely be lethal," said Tomer Fadlon, an economist at Tel Aviv University. ..."If we have a war with Hezbollah, given the arsenal that they have, they can paralyze the country...

Speaking to "Globes", Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, an economist who is executive director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, said of the plan that the measures would not be enough to provide a significant response to the needs of the economy, and sharply criticized the government. He says that the state budget for 2024 should be cancelled and...

“Investments will not be all pulled out in one day, but gradually,” Professor Esteban Klor of the Economics Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, told The Media Line. “If the message coming out of Israel is that it is not a friendly place for the business sector, people...

‘It’s almost never the case that a protest movement repeats itself,’ says Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, who led the government's response to 2011 social protests, and laments that not enough of his suggested reforms were implemented

The current strategic trends in the Red Sea region enhance a prospect of further security destabilization and of a setback in the realm of economic and social development of the fragile political entities in the region. African and Arab economies have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, which has also diminished the international trade through the Red Sea. The...

Dr. Shira Efron, a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and one of the authors of a report by the RAND think tank titled “Chinese Investment in Israeli Technology and Infrastructure: Security Implications for Israel and the United States,” projected this week that tensions in the US-Israel-China triangle will intensify in the aftermath of COVID-19.