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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...

Aug 22, 2026, 5:29 PM

Redirect Haredi Subsidies Toward Employment

The next government should preserve equal social protection while redirecting part of sector-specific funding toward audited employment, training, and lasting economic independence. Public debate over government support for Israel's Haredi population has become trapped between two familiar positions. One side...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 21, 2026, 8:38 AM

What’s Missing in Policymaking and News Production: Complexity

Everyone knows (sort of) that we live in a “complex world.” But what does that demand of us? This is a double “us”: regarding political policymakers as well as individual citizens. Let’s start with legislators, bureaucrats and the like. Given...

Aug 20, 2026, 2:35 PM

Israel’s Greatest Untapped Natural Resource

Young students in a classroom in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, August 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The Haredi community is not Israel’s burden – it is Israel’s greatest economic opportunity

Aug 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

Why I’m Changing My Mind About Trump’s Naval Blockade of Iran

In June I wrote that the strategy behind the American naval blockade was to provoke Iran's implosion, and I doubted the instrument could deliver it. Six days ago I showed that no blockade in the past century has ever...

Rebecca Schiller

Aug 17, 2026, 6:48 PM

Take It or Leave It – Overdraft and All

We’re about to enter the High Holidays. Rosh Hashanah is supposed to be about new beginnings. At least I hope it is. I’ve been thinking a lot about Adam and Eve and that red apple. They were tricked into eating...

Aug 15, 2026, 2:30 PM

The next global trade map could run through Israel — or around it

Backdropped by an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanker, a Yemeni soldier sails in waters north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Mokha, Yemen, April 6, 2026 (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

War froze a plan to connect India, the Gulf and Europe through Haifa just as attacks on shipping made it more vital. Israel must act now to keep itself on the route

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