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Yoav Sivan

Jul 24, 2024, 11:13 PM

Israeli Named Trump. American Named Netanyahu

The Netanyahu-Trump meeting scheduled for Friday at Mar-a-Lago will surely be the low-pressure encounter of the like-minded who share political interests and personal circumstances. The Trump-Netanyahu family resemblance is uncanny: Opposition to incumbent Democrats in the White House; strong...

Aug 11, 2023, 5:49 AM

Time to End Isreal’s Articles of Confederation?

Will miracles never cease? Finally there’s political unity in Israel. The first bill in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul package — that which would curb the Supreme Court’s ability to examine a law based on its reasonableness — passed...

About Me

Yoav Sivan is a New York-based writer and researcher. Yoav received an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School and afterwards was a Visiting Scholar at the sociology department at NYU. His initial academic training, however, was in economics at Tel Aviv University, from which he received his B.A., and at the economics graduate program of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.