A summit of ministers in Israel from Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates signals new regional economic development in the Middle East. While I write these words in my Afula office, an Arab is upgrading our internet. He comes from the neighboring village of a Druze Muslim who was murdered by an ISIS terrorist while serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). About 100 miles south of where I am sitting, the…

Had Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett never been a God fearing man, he might be hawking Dead Sea products instead of using his competitive advantage. In the late 1990s, he opened a startup. Armed with an army career and a lot of Israeli chutzpa, he started a company in something he knew nothing about. Things went well. He grew his dream to a small business employing 75 people. Then things started to go wrong. He…

In 24-hours, a loaf of bread cost me 20% more. How did this happen? I don’t live in Ukraine, Russia, or Europe. The global inflation indicator just went red. “Am I better off with half a loaf of bread?” my friend asks me. “Why? The bread here is first rate. We live in the wheat capital of the country” “I had to pay 20% more for a loaf of bread today. Prices just shot up overnight.” We both know…

Sanctions on Russia and inflation has driven up food prices in Egypt, home to 105 million Arabs, a third of which barely make ends meet when prices are stable. Arabs don’t laugh. It comes from Bedouin tradition. …

Listening to the smart money is a lot easier than listening to the media. Money moves in secret, like a vote. You do what you really want when nobody is watching. The people really in the know are telling us volumes about the situation in Ukraine. When I was a…

What is happening in Ukraine? Forget the media and follow the money. Look at how broader stock markets are performing to find out what the people with the real information think is going to happen next. Everybody loves the underdog. When the game begins, we are hoping that some way…

How you can personally turn away inflation without taking any risk. You can still beat inflation even if your income isn’t keeping up. My wife grew up in some of the harshest climates in the Soviet Union. I grew up on Long Island. She would have to use an outhouse as a bathroom, braving zero degree frost in knee deep snow just to wash her face. I had a shower that doubled as…

It’s early February and the spring flowers are blooming. They started a few weeks ago. G-d is so kind to us. The middle of January is when the world is at it’s darkest. It’s bone freezing cold. …

It’s day 35 of our lockdown. We found a way to get through it. About 3 kilometers away, there is a huge mountain, Givat HaMo’re. It has a labyrinth of paths, all different. Even though it’s February, we have a small opening. For the next few days, it will be…