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Apr 20, 2020, 5:54 PM

The Holocaust’s memory in Germany

The Nazi race laws that led to the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust were enacted in the city of Nuremberg. Nuremberg is a quintessentially German city, and the events that took place there have a particularly...

Mar 29, 2020, 11:31 PM

Is the US leaving the ME? If so, what we should do?

Ever since the Roman days and up until the Cold War, the Middle East has been a scene of disputes between powerful countries. The political reasons for this are prestige and international influence and the main practical reasons are...

Mar 15, 2018, 1:27 AM

China-Turkey relations and Cyprus’s Gas

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he attends a national youth foundation event in Ankara, Turkey on February 1, 2018. (Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP)

Gas discoveries in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean have attracted worldwide attention and have led Western energy companies to develop the reservoirs

Sep 23, 2017, 3:57 PM

The forthcoming 19th communist party summit

Ever since the communist parties in China and Russia have risen to power, their main summits have attracted much attention, probably due to the fact that these parties mostly work under a cover of secrecy, and when they hold...

Sep 13, 2017, 9:26 AM

The Indian-Chinese Conflict: Is It Really Heating Up?

In 1890, the British Mandate ruling India and representatives of the Chinese Qing dynasty signed an agreement to partition the Tibetan and Sikkim regions, which are adjacent to the Doklam plateau region. The agreement was not sufficiently comprehensive, leaving...

Sep 9, 2017, 6:51 PM

Why Are Relations Tightening Between China and Turkey?

Relations between China and Turkey have always had their ups and downs. When they established diplomatic relations in 1971, they made no effort to establish a deeper relationship. In the last decade of the 20th century, relations improved, and...

Aug 21, 2017, 2:08 PM

Is China Intervening in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

On July 18, 2017, PA President Mahmoud Abbas met for the fourth time with Chinese President Xi Jinping in China. The meeting was apparently good, judging by the declarations of continued cooperation between the sides. President Xi called the Palestinian...

May 4, 2017, 8:58 PM

The Israeli Angle of the Chinese High Tech Industry

China's Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli exports to China are mainly controlled by a few large companies, but in the last few years more and more small and mid-sized firms have been active in the Chinese market

May 4, 2017, 8:54 PM

Shanghai: The heart of the Chinese Start-Up Valley

Each time Jacqueline travels to the west, her friends ask her to bring back products that do not sell in China (or that are much more expensive in China), upon her return. But Jacqueline has had enough, and she...

Mar 6, 2017, 11:37 PM

Goodbye Caracas

What does China do when its business operations in main operating countries becomes unprofitable? The answer to this question is China’s creation of several business connections with continents like Africa and South America in recent years. China imported oil in 2015...

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Researcher and PhD student at the Middle Eastern studies department, Bar-Ilan University.