Economics

A worn-out banknote in Gaza, Dec. 19 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

From cash brokers to crypto, Gazans struggle to stay financially afloat

With banks and ATMs destroyed, and Israel blocking new banknotes, Palestinians face a liquidity crisis and an economy shattered by Israel’s war.

By Ahmed Dremly December 19, 2025

Israeli soldiers, settlers and Palestinian demonstrators during a protest against Israeli settlement building in Al-Thaalaba village, near Yatta, August 21, 2020. (Wissam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why Israel’s goal of pacifying the Palestinians is failing

Israel relies on a counterinsurgency strategy of economic gestures and local policing to stabilize its rule. But growing resistance shows why it can't prevail.

By Nur Arafeh February 16, 2023

Settlement construction in Gilo, January 21, 2010. (Photo: Activestills.org)

Israel’s economy has problems, but a bubble ain’t one

The concern sparked by claims of an economic bubble in Israel are not supported by data, and could lead to a harmful consequences if interest rates rise and exchange rates are adversely affected. A response to Jesse Colombo

By Roi Maor May 14, 2014

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Kicking the neoliberal habit

After the 2008 global financial crisis, some of Israel’s neo-liberal fundamentalists sobered up from capitalist dogmatism and became ‘social.’ This led them to discovering Scandinavia, and lately they have been busy marketing a biased and union-free capitalist version of the ‘Nordic Model’ in Israel as well. By Yossi Dahan (Translated from Hebrew by Orna Meir-Stacey, Edited by…

By Haokets April 12, 2014

Palestinian youth working under precarious conditions, under the minimum wage on plantations in the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim, Jordan Valley, March 21st, 2009. (Photo: Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

What’s behind Israel’s biggest economic boom? The occupation

The period of Israel’s history that by far saw the largest economic growth, more than any other, was the six years following the Six Day War. And what agricultural, industrial, or hi-tech breakthroughs took place around 1967-1973? None worthy of mention. More than any other single factor, it was the establishment of the Occupation-Settlement Enterprise.…

By Haokets October 28, 2013

Israeli border police patrol near Palestinian women selling vegetables in the Old City near Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem, May 19, 2013. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

The economics of Oslo, 20 years later: A snapshot

There is much to say about the justness (or unjustness) of the Oslo process, specifically the economic and human impact it has had over the last two decades in Israel and Palestine. What follows is a snapshot. By A. Daniel Roth Twenty years ago this week Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed the historic Oslo…

By +972 Magazine September 18, 2013

Israeli Nobel laureate offers rightwing talking points on Palestine

Yisrael Aumann won the Nobel Prize in Economics, yet still manages to make no sense on Israeli-Palestinian peace Professor Yisrael Aumann, an Israeli laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics, delivered on Wednesday a “master class” in the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, under the title “Peace in the Middle East: A Game Theorist’s Perspective”. The…

By Roi Maor June 24, 2011