#2857: What Renters in Israel Can Actually Renovate
What you can fix, paint, and upgrade in a Jerusalem rental — and how to negotiate with your landlord.
#2852: How Desalination Made Israel a Water Superpower
How Israel turned a catastrophic drought into a water surplus and used it to reshape regional diplomacy.
#2849: Fixing Israel's Broken Link Between Voters and Government
How Israel's party-list voting crowds out local issues — and what Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland do differently.
#2837: Israel's Rental Trap: Why "Just Buy" No Longer Works
How did Israel build a rental market where tenants have almost no rights and buying costs 15x your salary?
#2813: How Jerusalem Day Went From Thanksgiving to Sovereignty Display
The holiday began as a rabbinic day of thanks. Now 70,000 people march through the Muslim Quarter. How did it shift?
#2787: Mapping Israel's Ideological Think Tanks
Van Leer, IDI, INSS, Kohelet, JCPA — what these institutes actually do, who funds them, and how they shape policy.
#2785: Why Israeli Renters Pay for a Landlord's Broker
Why Israeli tenants pay brokers hired by landlords—and what other countries do differently.
#2772: Israelis Abroad: Beyond the Stigma of Yerida
Why do Israelis leave? And why does their departure carry such heavy moral baggage? The data tells a surprising story.
#2761: When a Strong Shekel Rewrites Labor Economics
How a surging shekel is reshaping Israel's labor market, crushing exporters, and creating unexpected winners among foreign workers.
#2735: What Talmud Study Actually Trains Your Mind To Do
Why the Talmud preserves arguments you’ll never follow — and what that reveals about learning itself.
#2734: How Hebrew Printing Defied Book Burnings
The first Hebrew printed book dates to 1475 — and it was Rashi’s commentary, not the Bible.
#2697: When Trust in Your Country Feels Like a Bad Relationship
What happens when the state you fund feels like it's deceiving you — and you can't opt out.
#2686: Why Jerusalem Stays Poor Despite Its Pull
Why Jerusalem’s economy is broken, from the 1948 division to the modern housing crisis.
#2662: Did Judaism Ever Have Monks?
Did Judaism ever have monks? The Essenes and Therapeutae challenge the standard answer.
#2610: Can Opposition Be Constructive in a Democracy?
When does protesting the government become protesting democracy itself? A look at loyal opposition vs. blanket obstruction.
#2581: Did Ancient Jews Have Leisure?
Did ancient Jews ever relax, or was every moment supposed to be Torah study? The surprising history of leisure in Jewish tradition.
#2572: Solar Panels on Israeli Roofs: Who Gets to Decide?
Rooftop solar economics in Israel, the collective-action problem of apartment buildings, and how feed-in tariffs actually work.
#2515: Digital Sovereignty and the Shekel Stablecoin
How a new shekel-backed stablecoin could reshape digital finance—and why Israel’s approach is different from CBDCs or unregulated crypto.
#2428: Growing Up in Jerusalem’s Layers
Two donkeys revisit the fig summers, hidden tunnels, and limestone walls that shaped their Jerusalem childhood.
#2393: Is Israel Really a High-Tax Country?
Is Israel really a high-tax country? We dive into the data to compare Israel’s tax burden with global peers and uncover surprising insights.