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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Forty-five years ago, on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. raised a .22-calibre revolver outside the Washington Hilton and, with a bullet that...
Strip away the theatre — including the surreal moment when Israel’s Foreign Ministry summoned Spain’s chargé d’affaires over an Andalusian...
As Iraq’s Coordination Framework scrambles to nominate a prime minister before its constitutional deadline on April 26, a familiar narrative has...
A viral social media post is making the rounds this week with a question its author calls simple: if the United States, Russia, China, France, the...
Robert Tombs, one of our finest historians of Franco-British relations, has surveyed the present moment and found it small. Writing in The Telegraph,...
Ask ten Israelis whether they live in a welfare state and you will receive, with Talmudic predictability, eleven opinions. The Haredi family drawing...
Europe is about to discover that strategic complacency has an expiry date — and the bill is being presented at the gate of every major airport on...
Israel has spent two decades assuming that the American umbrella over the Gulf was opaque to its enemies. It was not. For the price of a mid-range...
The Daily Telegraph declares Iran “two months from economic meltdown.” For Israel, the more urgent countdown runs in the other direction. The...
In February 2025, an Israeli company that most Israelis have never heard of raised $170 million in a single funding round. Quantum Machines, founded...
In every serious chancellery from New Delhi to Riyadh to Canberra, the same strategy is now being executed. Faced with a Washington that has walked...
When the Iranian delegation flew to Islamabad last weekend, they posted a photograph of a row of empty seats on the aircraft. On the seats they had...
You know the type — not any specific individual, but the pattern. A senior figure with a name that opens doors in Herzliya and a CV that fits...
When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stood before the International Asia-Political Parties Conference in Istanbul on Sunday and threatened to “enter” Israel...
On 9 April 2026, a Royal Air Force MQ-9B Protector drone took off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and spent thirteen hours aloft. Flight-tracking data...
A fisherman north of Gili Trawangan hauls in his net and finds a torpedo-shaped object trailing sensors and an antenna. Indonesian marines crowd...
The ceasefire announced on 8 April between Washington and Tehran has been called, variously, a triumph, a fig leaf and a trap. It is in fact none of...
When President Trump announced on Truth Social, less than two hours before his self-imposed 8 p.m. deadline, that the United States and Iran had...
When an American F-15E Strike Eagle was brought down over Iran on 3 April by a shoulder-fired missile, the Pentagon executed what Defence Secretary...
Direct air capture — the technology that sucks carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere — currently costs between $400 and $1,000 per tonne of...
The war is here. The Strait is closed. Who is paying the price—and how? Since 28 February, when the United States and Israel launched strikes...
How sovereign monetary authorities are acquiring battle-tested blockchain rails at distressed valuations — and why Israel should be paying attention...
SpaceX is worth $1.5 trillion, possibly $1.75 trillion. If its forthcoming IPO proceeds at that range, it will be the largest public offering in...
Tony Blair’s warning in The Sunday Times — that progressive politicians are enabling antisemitism through an “unholy alliance” with hardline...
A billion-year-old organism with no brain may hold lessons for Israel’s approach to resilient, decentralised technology In 2010, researchers at...
Tomorrow evening, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will hurl four astronauts toward the Moon on Artemis II—the first crewed lunar voyage since...
Strategic Calculus, Systemic Risk, and the Mispricing of the World’s Most Important Waterway As the Iran conflict enters its fifth week, President...
On May 31, 2023, inside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, a dozen banks and their technology partners watched as the State of Israel minted its first...
Ask any parent of a four-year-old with amblyopia about the eye patch, and you will hear the same story. Tears at breakfast. The patch ripped off at...
I have spent much of my career studying what happens when governments overleverage — when leaders borrow against institutional credibility, judicial...
At 6:49 a.m. New York time on Monday 23 March, roughly 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures contracts changed hands in a single minute —...
Operation Epic Fury enters its fourth week — and both sides are weaponising memes alongside munitions On Monday 23 March, President Trump announced...
Here is an uncomfortable proposition: Banksy, the most celebrated protest artist of his generation, has done more to preserve the Israeli separation...
Rutte’s nuclear candour, Macron’s forward deterrence, and a continent sleepwalking through an inflection point When NATO Secretary-General Mark...
Peter Apps’ bullish call on Operation Epic Fury mistakes a mid-trade snapshot for a final settlement Reuters’ global defence commentator Peter...
Three weeks into Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, Prime Minister Netanyahu stood at a Jerusalem podium and declared that Iran can no longer...
“The Strait of Hormuz will either be a Strait of peace and prosperity for all or a Strait of defeat and suffering for warmongers.” — Ali...
Operation Epic Fury Has Closed the World’s Most Critical Maritime Passage. The Humanitarian Consequences Are Only Beginning. On 1 March 2026, the...
I write from the Gulf, where this war is not an abstraction. The morning after the first Iranian salvo, colleagues scrambled for flights out of...
Two Indian LPG tankers slipped through the Strait of Hormuz at dawn on Saturday. No warships escorted them. No coalition of the willing cleared their...
Oil prices maybe easing because Saudi Arabia has started bypassing the Strait of Hormuz? [https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/] Instead of shipping...
The democracies that share technology fastest will be the democracies that survive. Israel cannot afford to remain a brilliant node connected to a...
Operation Epic Fury Has Exposed the Catastrophic Gap Between Defence Spending and Defence Capability The United Kingdom has, depending on the source,...
There is a question that now hangs over British foreign policy like an unpaid invoice: what, precisely, does Keir Starmer mean when he invokes...
Valuation, Contagion, and the Abraham Accords Economy Operation Epic Fury has sharpened a question that the Abraham Accords economy can no longer...
A message landed in my inbox recently from a contact whose grandfather had predicted that World War Three would begin in the Middle East. The...
Hormuz was not shut by a naval blockade. It was shut by an insurance withdrawal. For decades, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sat in the annals of...
On a June night in 2025, roughly 150 Iranian ballistic missiles streaked toward Israel. Within milliseconds, artificial intelligence algorithms aboard...
Operation Epic Fury has done more than devastate Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure. It has detonated the strategic assumptions underpinning...
When you hedge everything, you end up exposed to everything In options trading, the worst possible outcome is not a losing position — it is...
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