Eran Yashiv

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A vendor at a market in Tel Aviv last week, after some restrictions to protect against the coronavirus have been eased around Israel. Models created at the country’s Weizmann Institute predict a special two-week work cycle would reduce the virus’s reproduction number. Credit Amir Cohen/Reuters

If we cannot resume economic activity without causing a resurgence of Covid-19 infections, we face a grim, unpredictable future of opening and closing schools and businesses.

We can find a way out of this dilemma by exploiting a key property of the virus: its latent period — the three-day delay on average between the time a person is infected and the time he or she can infect others.

People can work in two-week cycles, on the job for four days then, by the time they might become infectious, 10 days at home in lockdown. The strategy works even better when the population is split into two groups of households working alternating weeks.…  Seguir leyendo »

The latest round of fighting between Israel and the Hamas-led Gaza Strip puts in sharp relief the basic futility of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the sad truth is that while a solution exists and has been drafted and redrafted, it is not likely to be implemented.

First, consider current the recent hostilities. Hamas and its affiliates have repeatedly launched missile strikes against Israel, provoking a predictable response. The motive is not clear, since Israel has never succumbed to such strikes and has always reacted forcefully. Moreover, since Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005 there is not much to be gained.…  Seguir leyendo »