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Hande Gençünal

Sep 15, 2026, 6:27 AM

One Ship Gets Protected, One Cow Doesn’t

Israel doesn't guard all its strategic assets with the same care. Nothing shows this more clearly than the different treatment two sales received, one a shipping company, the other a dairy cooperative. Two Founding Companies ZIM and Tnuva were both born...

Sep 14, 2026, 11:59 PM

What Made AI Agents Cross the Line at Hugging Face?

In July 2026, OpenAI was running an internal cybersecurity evaluation called ExploitGym. AI agents were given exceptionally difficult software-security problems and asked to solve them by finding an answer known as a “flag.” Some of those problems were so...

Sep 13, 2026, 9:26 PM

The End of the Startup Nation?

The Soviet Union, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a country composed of 15 units known as republics. Among these republics was Russia, which was the largest, most populous, and most dominant of the...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Sep 11, 2026, 2:50 PM

Demography as Destiny: Israel’s Really Good News

With the Jewish New Year upon us, we all wish for good news in the coming annum. But it’s been here all along. I’ll start far away, and then quickly move to Israel. Over the past five years, Japan has...

Sep 10, 2026, 3:47 PM

IMF/WB Domestic Revenue Mobilization Enters Urgent Phase

IMF/WB Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand 2026

Domestic revenue mobilization has been part of the international development agenda for many years. Finance ministries, the IMF, the World Bank and development institutions have spent much of the past decade asking how countries can strengthen their own revenue...

Amitai Avnon Sawicki

Sep 9, 2026, 11:34 PM

What Israel’s ancient respect for age and its culture of innovation could teach a rapidly aging world Approaching Rosh Hashana, I am always reminded of how my grandfather used to say that we Jews live longer lives, age-wise – because...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 1, 2026, 10:16 AM

An Operating System (OS) approach to Democracy.

A Data Science based (Operating Systems) approach for Democracy Look at a city from an aeroplane as you come in to land. Roads, buildings and industrial complexes: it looks remarkably like a CPU chip. So where is the instruction set?...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Aug 31, 2026, 5:21 PM

The signal in the bottle

TL;DR: The Dutch government’s new prohibition on goods from Israeli settlements is built on precision: legal consequences attach to a specific territorial relationship. Yet the same measure is also intended to send a wider political signal. That matters in...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 31, 2026, 3:36 AM

A New Measure for the Economy: GDP to GLP

From GDP to GLP - Understanding Language as a measure of economic and societal growth. This article introduces a new concept to measure the economy and society - any academics or journalists who use this concept - must attribute it...

Aug 28, 2026, 12:40 AM

Israel Is Building AI’s Safety Layer

On May 28, Anthropic published a 244-page technical report on its newest model and included a number no company has a commercial reason to print. Point a red team at Claude Opus 4.8 while it is driving a web...

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