Lewis Rosen, at The Blogs

Aug 27, 2024, 5:22 PM

New elections in Israel must see a decisive defeat of the ruling Likud party. Why? The Israeli government that was formed in December 2022, led again by Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, is responsible for a wide range of severe...

Feb 27, 2024, 8:58 PM

Israel’s response to talk of a Palestinian state

In the growing political agitation concerning Israel’s response to recent calls by Western diplomats for a Palestinian state, it is necessary to focus on Israel’s most vital priorities. Two priorities that would be very widely supported by the Israeli...

Nov 20, 2023, 3:11 PM

Some thoughts on Israeli resolve

Unlike what seems to be the case for many people living outside of Israel, the horrors (and that word is so inadequate) perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th haven’t receded for Israelis; rather, they continue to reverberate. Even if...

Mar 13, 2023, 3:34 PM

‘In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man’

During the last two months, Israel has been roiled by unprecedented social stress caused by government initiatives sponsored either by the Likud or by the Religious Zionist Party and the ultra-Orthodox parties, which have been given outsized power and...

Feb 28, 2023, 3:24 PM

Updating Hillel Halkin’s Warning

In an illuminating article written in 2008, “How Not to Repair the World,” Hillel Halkin explained how the meaning of tikkun olam had changed drastically from its understanding by the later Jewish prophets to its subsequent meaning expressed by...

Dec 26, 2022, 1:14 PM

Stout-Hearted Men and Women?

These days, as I contemplate, with unprecedented foreboding, the new government that Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to form, I recall some of the lyrics of the song, Stout-Hearted Men, written by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II. I often...

Mar 15, 2021, 10:14 PM

Voting in light of Israel’s urgent priorities

Voters in Israel’s multi-party election next week are basically facing this choice: continuation of Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule, heading an even more right-wing coalition than ever before, one dominated by a Likud-Haredi partnership with its demonstrated priorities, or an alternative...

Jan 7, 2021, 11:49 AM

‘A date which will live in infamy’

Watching yesterday’s ugly scenes of a raging mob storming the U.S. Capitol Building, following weeks of wild words of incitement from President Donald Trump, brought to mind the chilling words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who memorably referred to December...

Nov 3, 2020, 1:50 PM

Measuring Israel’s lost ground vis-a-vis Covid-19

In early May 2020 I presented an analysis of data on deaths attributed to Covid-19 relative to population for the 36 OECD countries. At that time, Israel was 23rd on the list, meaning that 22 countries had experienced a...

Sep 7, 2020, 2:48 PM

Rotation: Netanyahu vs. Peres – A dispiriting comparison

The blatant efforts led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine the coalition agreement that his party signed in May 2020 are deeply troubling since they erode two central values that used to be widely honored and praised in...

About Me

Lewis Rosen is a retired economist who has lived in Jerusalem for 40 years. Born and educated in the US, he worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity for two years in Washington D.C. and was on the economics faculty of York University in Toronto, Canada for 13 years. In Israel he was involved in a wide range of business planning and economic analysis projects.

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