Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Interview with Joel Mokyr: "I'm Not Sure Democracy Will Survive"

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 Joel Mokyr, the Dutch-Israeli-American 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his work on the history of technology, is interviewed in Haaret...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

"Better to exchange kidneys than bombs."

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 Some coffee cups  should naturally come in pairs, so that you have one for a friend in need. (These recently arrived in the mail, from Laur...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Universities under attack, in Israel and the U.S., by warfare and lawfare

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Both the U.S. and Israel have distinguished universities, some older than the country in which they sit. Both have universities that have re...
Friday, June 13, 2025

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's centennial party is cancelled

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The Hebrew University in Jerusalem is older than the state of Israel, and is and has been a steady anchor in difficult times.  It was schedu...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein (two great game theorists and veteran Israeli peace activists) worry about Gaza, in Haaretz

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Many of the world's great democracies are going through difficult, divisive times, with a majority or near-majority of citizens worrying...
Monday, December 9, 2024

Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th, by Jeannie Suk Gersen in the New Yorker

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 I was moved by this New Yorker article by Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th For de...
Monday, December 2, 2024

IVF mistakes that would have confounded King Solomon

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 IVF helps many people welcome children into their families, but also makes possible mistakes that would have confounded King Solomon. Haare...
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...