Israel

We continue to see the possibility of another military confrontation between Israel and Hizbullah, with rhetoric between the two parties intensifying and a new intelligence report... 2008-11-27

Israeli ruling party leader Tzipi Livni has slammed the opposition Labor and Shas parties, after they withheld support for a planned economic stimulus package. The plan, of which... 2008-11-25

Israeli and Jordanian officials confirmed on November 20 that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Ehud Barak secretly visited Amman two days previously to hold... 2008-11-21

We have revised our forecast for Israel's 2009 fiscal deficit from 2.1% of GDP to 3.0% of GDP, on the back of an economic slowdown, and the associated higher costs of election spending... 2008-11-20

BMI View: We stand by our view that a peace deal between Israel and Syria is possible, but recent developments prove that the process will be a complicated one.

An Egyptian court has ruled in favour of a motion to ban natural gas exports to Israel. Egyptian natural gas consortium EMG began exporting the shipments under a US$2.5bn deal, which... 2008-11-18

The truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has all but broken down. We believe that the appetite for renewing the ceasefire is waning in both camps, making an escalation of hostilities... 2008-11-14

News that Hamas has accepted an Egyptian plan for inter-Palestinian reconciliation is positive, but we remain sceptical of any improvement in cross border security in the short term:... 2008-10-13

Israeli exports were up by 23.5% y-o-y in June 2008, suggesting that the export sector has not yet felt the impact of US economic woes. We believe that export growth will start to... 2008-09-26

With uncertainty persisting over the replacement of Ehud Olmert as Kadima leader and the future of the governing coalition, we have downgraded Israel's score in the constitutional... 2008-09-25