If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.