Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Monday, October 7, 2024

October 7, 2023

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  There aren't enough days in the year to remember all of important history by naming a day, but some days stand out. The oldest one I k...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Kidney exchange chains between Israel and Cyprus

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 Israel Hayom has the story. (Itai Ashalgi's software gets a shout-out): Unprecedented Israel-Cyprus kidney exchange saves 8 lives.  Cro...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Kidney Exchange among Austria, Czech Republic, and Israel

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  Here's an article that includes description of the joint Austria, Czech Republic and Israel kidney exchanges. Böhmig, Georg A., Thomas...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Kidney exchange between Israel and the Czech Republic

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 The Jerusalem Post reports another kidney exchange between Israel and the Czech Republic: Miraculous kidney donation between friends spans ...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies summer school in economics (and cs)

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  Here's the announcement for this summer's summer school in Economics in Jerusalem (with the program and list of speakers updated o...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Anger and Sadness in Tel Aviv

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Saturday, on the last night of my just-ended visit to Israel, I attended two adjacent mass public events.  One was a political demonstration...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Conference in Jerusalem, in solidarity with Israeli academics

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 I'm expecting to be back in California later today.  I gave three talks while in Israel, and met with many people, but the proximate ca...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Revisiting the Israel-UAE kidney exchange

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 I spoke in Jerusalem yesterday about kidney exchange, and one of the things I talked about is the kidney exchange between Israel and the UA...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Bring Them Home

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  I'm in Israel this week, where there are constant reminders of the hostages at Ben Gurion airport at Symphony hall
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Eyal Winter's historical novel "Anna's Children"

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  Eyal Winter , the eminent Israeli economist (who was a postdoc of mine a lifetime ago, in Pittsburgh), has published a novel called Anna&#...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Education (and age) versus fertility in the U.S. marriage market

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  Markets change over time, including the marriage market.  American marriages have become more assortative in recent years, and it appears ...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Refugees in the middle east, since 1949

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  Al Jazeera provides some interesting statistics and graphics in a story about UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palest...
Friday, October 27, 2023

HBS Dean Datar's statement about Hamas, Gaza, and antisemitism on campus

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During World War II, many anti-Nazi people of good will  might have been disturbed by the firebombing of Dresden (sometimes said to be in re...