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Alex Weinreb

Demographer

Mar 6, 2024, 9:53 AM

Israel is not the largest recipient of US foreign assistance

A common assertion about US-Israeli relations is that the US gives Israel more financial aid – formally referred to as “assistance” – than it does to any other country in the world, and has given more over time (e.g.,...

Feb 7, 2024, 12:17 PM

Who funds UNRWA, and who doesn’t?

Many of UNRWA’s leading donors have been getting bad press for suspending their donations. Let’s put aside the debates about whether UNRWA should still exist and, if so, in what form. Instead, let’s focus on some simpler empirical questions:...

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Trained in demography (PhD from U. Pennsylvania), I was on the faculty of Hebrew University for 5 years, then Professor of Sociology and Director of Health and Society at the University of Texas at Austin. I'm now Research Director and head of demography at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies.

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