The author of “Israel in Space” joins a Mosaic editor to talk about what small countries can do in space.
In the shadow of October 7, the story of Israel’s rapidly growing space industry is easily overlooked. But it holds many of the keys for the nation’s future survival.
For the West, what’s at stake now is not just the safety of Israel’s citizens, but its own.
Just a few years ago, Israel’s massive natural-gas fields were caught up in endless infighting. Now, thanks in part to the UAE deal, they’re about to transform the region’s economy.
A series of defense-trade treaties among the world’s leading democracies would help defend all of them, and us, against China.
The historian and foreign-policy expert joins us to talk about strains between friends and how to overcome them.
In some ways, the two countries have never been closer, but in others, and notably with regard to China, they’ve never seemed farther apart.
Otherwise, Israel will end up making the same mistakes with regard to China that the U.S. did.
After decades of almost no interaction, relations between the two nations grow increasingly warmer and closer. There’s plenty of good news—and, for Israel, plenty of risk.
Israel has successfully navigated the post-Arab Spring chaos, it has the region’s most powerful military, and it will soon be a major energy player.
Formerly neutral or hostile countries from across the world, including Saudi Arabia and China, are now eagerly courting the Jewish state. What’s going on?
Tens of trillions of cubic feet of gas lie waiting offshore, with the potential to transform the world’s energy map and perhaps even stabilize the Middle East.
After decades of wariness, the two nations are being drawn together by common interests and shared fears.