ANALYSIS

Professor Manuel Trajtenberg is a leading Israeli economist and key economic advisor to Finance Minister Yair Lapid. In this interview he discusses Israel’s economic challenges, as well as a new Israeli government scheme he is launching to promote scholarships for Israeli Arab students to go into higher education.

Representatives of the Arab League have announced in Washington their support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which would be based on 1967 borders but include a “comparable and mutual agreed minor swap of the land.” This analysis assesses the significance of this development.

Arab affairs correspondent for the Times of Israel Elhanan Miller examines for BICOM the barriers to returning to talks on the Palestinian side, and the challenge of overcoming widespread Palestinian resistance to bilateral negotiations.