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Jun 27, 2024 | 
reaction.life | Michael Ben-Gad
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the most intense phase of Israel’s assault on Gaza is ending. Units of the Israel Defense Forces are being moved to the Lebanese border where there are signs that fighting with Hezbollah is intensifying. Since the war began after the October 7 Hamas attack, citizens living in northern Israel have been subjected to almost continuous rocket fire from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Michael Ben-Gad
By Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics, City, University of London
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the most intense phase of Israel’s assault on Gaza is ending. Units of the Israel Defense Forces are being moved to the Lebanese border where there are signs that fighting with Hezbollah is intensifying.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Michael Ben-Gad
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the most intense phase of Israel’s assault on Gaza is ending. Units of the Israel Defense Forces are being moved to the Lebanese border where there are signs that fighting with Hezbollah is intensifying. Since the war began after the October 7 Hamas attack, citizens living in northern Israel have been subjected to almost continuous rocket fire from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
iea.org.uk | Kristian Niemietz |Michael Ben-Gad
The good news in last week’s budget statement is that over the short term the cut in national insurance rates by two percentage points will, as Jeremy Hunt undoubtably hopes, cause the economy to grow a bit faster. Tax cuts can incentivise more work or (where applicable) more savings and investment in capital, and these extra inputs mean higher output.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
capx.co | Michael Ben-Gad
Israel has transformed itself from an impoverished backwater to a high-tech hub Benjamin Netanyahu has free market sympathies, but has rolled back reform Over the next few years, the war will cost Israel an estimated 255bn shekelsIsrael’s war in Gaza and more limited conflict with Hezbollah on its northern border with Lebanon is taking a toll on the Israeli economy.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Michael Ben-Gad
By Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics, City, University of London
Israel’s war in Gaza and more limited conflict with Hezbollah on its northern border with Lebanon is taking a toll on the Israeli economy. In the final quarter of 2023, Israel’s gross domestic product (GDP) – a measure of a country’s economic health – shrank by almost 20%. Consumption dropped by 27% and investment by 70%.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Michael Ben-Gad
Israel’s war in Gaza and more limited conflict with Hezbollah on its northern border with Lebanon is taking a toll on the Israeli economy. In the final quarter of 2023, Israel’s gross domestic product (GDP) – a measure of a country’s economic health – shrank by almost 20%. Consumption dropped by 27% and investment by 70%. It’s important to note that these are annualised figures relative to the same period a year ago.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
iea.org.uk | Kristian Niemietz |Michael Ben-Gad
Aside from one welcome element, making permanent the full expensing of business investment, yesterday’s Autumn Statement demonstrates that the Tories have now internalised the widely held view that in a year’s time they will be sitting in the opposition benches. See it through that prism and it all makes sense, abjuring tax cuts and more spending on pensions and benefits would merely leave more money for the Labour Party to spend (and take credit for spending) later.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
quillette.com | David Eisenberg |Benny Morris |Michael Ben-Gad
When I ask my students to rethink the universality of human rights, the mere suggestion befuddles them. Creatures of their progressive times, the a priori existence of such rights is as firmly established in their minds as the existence of witches or geocentricity was in the minds of their ancestors. Even as they indulge my lines of inquiry, their convictions by and large remain unshakeable. But though unshakeable, they prove fantastically protean, as recent events have made disconcertingly plain.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
quillette.com | Benny Morris |Michael Ben-Gad |Julia Friedman
The Hamas attack on a dozen or so Israeli villages and towns on 7 October produced truly horrific images—of decapitated babies, raped and murdered women, mutilated corpses, slaughtered families, and 230 infants, children, women, men, and octogenarians taken as hostages to dungeons in Gaza.
