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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Joel Mokyr as a co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, it added...
What the Decline of Pax Americana Means for Israel History does not repeat itself, Mark Twain allegedly observed, but it often rhymes. As we witness...
Israel’s economy contracted by 3.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2025 as the Iran conflict shuttered businesses and cratered exports. By early...
At a moment when much of the world debates whether infrastructure investment is affordable, Abu Dhabi is simply getting on with it. At the Abu Dhabi...
When Blackstone or KKR locks up capital for a decade, structures illiquid holdings around a perpetuity thesis, and appoints stewards answerable to...
Wars have always been won by those who understood the next battlefield before their adversaries arrived on it. The shift from trenches to tanks, from...
The UAE’s exit from OPEC on May 1 was not a tantrum. It was a strategic calculation years in the making. Abu Dhabi had invested $150 billion...
In 2009, the Anti-Defamation League found that 31 per cent of Europeans blamed Jews for the global financial crisis. They were blaming the wrong Jews...
This is no longer a forecast. Since February 28, when a joint US–Israeli operation against Iran began, Indian carriers alone have cancelled more...
Washington is trying to end two wars at once and failing at both. The Iran ceasefire is fraying. The Ukraine talks are frozen. The Trump...
A region that a decade ago ran largely on cash is building the financial architecture of the future at a pace that should command attention in Tel...
When a vessel named Panormitis slipped into Haifa Bay last week carrying wheat harvested from occupied Ukrainian farmland, it carried more than cargo....
Here is a question that nobody in Washington dares to ask: what if the apparent American stumble in the Iran war is not a stumble at all? What if the...
Israel has a pension problem hiding in plain sight. The country’s market-income poverty rate among the elderly is the lowest in the developed world...
Last week marked exactly forty years since Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant detonated at 1:23 a.m. on 26 April 1986, scattering...
When King Charles III rose to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 28, he delivered far more than a diplomatic pleasantry. Beneath the velvet...
When the Banque de France announced in late March that it had sold all 129 tonnes of gold held at the New York Federal Reserve, pocketing nearly €13...
Every political system is, fundamentally, a contract between governors and governed. The terms of that contract are not fixed by ideology or culture....
As Trump cancels his envoys’ flight to Islamabad and Iran insists no negotiations are planned with the Americans, a casual observer might conclude...
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 —...
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