While the United States makes grandiose declarations and technocrats meet in Cairo, Gazans try to understand how the new administrative bodies will impact their lives. 'Meanwhile, people think about tents, mobile homes, food, water and education,' says one social activist

Speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate a new settlement in the northern West Bank, the far-right minister called to dismantle the U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordinating Center in southern Israel late last year, 'to remove hostile countries such as Egypt and Britain'

Companies in sectors like defense and pharma are flourishing and hiring; not so much in the software business, as the strong shekel hinders exports