Leumi optimistic on Israeli economy. (Bank Leumi le-Israel review of Israeli 1991 economic...

Israel's economy The Israeli Economy, 1985-1998: From Government Intervention to Market Economics. Edited by Avi Ben-Bassat. Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002, 514 pp., $40/cloth. As editor, Avi Ben-Bassat presents a series of 14 essays based on a 1996 research project by various Israeli academic and financial institutions as ......

Israel Commercializes Defense Technology With Help From The Technion The Cold War is over and there could be peace in the Middle East. Many would expect an era of peace to have a severe effect on Israel's economy which is laced with defense-related industries; and yet, Israeli exports for 1993 ......

THE HANDOVER of power in the West Bank and Gaza was a source of euphoria for many Palestinians. But they are entering a new era in an economically more fragile state than for decades. Economic success will depend crucially upon reorienting policies so as to shift the economy onto a ......

Bank Chairman Replaces Private Equity Representative on Board SAN JOSE, Calif. -- VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), the world's leading provider of electronic payment solutions, today announced the appointment of Eitan Raff to its Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2007. Mr. Raff is the Chairman of Bank Leumi, Israel's ......

Imported Antitrust Competition Policy for Small Market Economies, Michal S. Gal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 336. $45.00. Background Professor Gal, who teaches at the University of Haifa, has produced a delightfully clear and remarkably sensible book devoted to the problems of formulating competition policy, or antitrust law, in ......

By Daniel Heyman and Axel Leijonhufvud. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 233. $39.95. This book is based on the Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures the authors gave in 1989. It is a useful and thought provoking book, especially for an economist interested in high-inflation countries, such as Argentina, ......

By Emanuel A. Winston (Commentary) Once again Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert unleashed a gang of 90 terrorists who had been safely restricted to prison for attacks and planned attacks on Jews in Israel. There is no longer any doubt that, upon release, most terrorists go right back to ......