Israel
August 10, 2021
Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Israel, 10 August 2021 Dr. Rozen-Bakher’s Academic Blog on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade: Risks versus Opportunities In this blog, I focus each time on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade in a certain country or territory in terms of how Location Factors (Political, Economic, Technological, Ecological, Legal and Cultural) and Entry Modes (e.g. M&As, Export and Greenfield) impact the attractiveness - or vice versa - the risks of FDI and International Trade in the specific country or territory. Still, keep in mind that each risk may lead to an opportunity for resolving problems via suitable FDI and International Trade, while each opportunity for FDI and International Trade may involve risks.
Political Risks : Regime Transformation, Political Instability, Wars, Geopolitical Conflicts, Sanctions, Global Terror, Regional & Global Crises.
Economic Risks : Economic Instability, Trade Wars, Restrictions on FDI and International Trade, Risks in International Trade Agreements, Impact of FDI on Labour Markets, Risks of Global Warming in Host Countries
Strategic Risks : Strategic Risks in M&As, Integration Risks in M&As, Risks of Cultural Distance, Cultural Openness versus Ethnocentrism, Labour Unions in M&As
Israel - Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade
Key Figures of FDI and International Trade
GDP per capita, PPP: $41,854.9(2020)
Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$): $19,047.10 (Millions) (2019)
Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$): $5,859.5 (Millions) (2020)
Exports of goods and services (BoP, current US$): $113,873.70 (Millions) (2020)
Imports of goods and services (BoP, current US$): $96,530.90 (Millions) (2020)
Source: World Bank
Information and Data on FDI and International Trade
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Israel - Investing - International Trade Portal International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)
FactSheetIsrael_2021_new (unctad.org)
Foreign trade figures of Israel - Economic and Political Overview - International Trade Portal International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)
Israel - United States Department of State
Macro Data
Israel | Data (worldbank.org)
Israel and the IMF
General Information and Political Information
Israel - The World Factbook (cia.gov)
Israel country profile - BBC News
Research Papers and Research Books
Terrorism, environmental pollution, foreign direct investment (FDI), energy consumption, and economic growth: Evidences from China, India, Israel, and Turkey - Melike E Bildirici, 2021 (sagepub.com)
Does foreign direct investment polarize regional earnings? Some evidence from Israel | SpringerLink
A Window of Opportunity for Israel: Attracting Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment: Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: Vol 7, No 1 (tandfonline.com)
International agreements and Díez, A. S. (2016). International agreements and trade in agricultural produce between the European Union and Israel-Palestine. Applied econometrics and international development, 16(2), 99-112.in agricultural produce between the European Union and Israel -Palestine
Aid and Trade Nathanson, R., & Mandelbaum, R. (2018). Aid and Trade: Economic Relations Between the United States and Israel, 1948–2010. In Israel and the United States (pp. 124-142). Routledge.Israel , 1948–2010
Arieli, T., & Kahn, Y. (2019). Transforming Regions of Conflict through Trade Preferential Agreements: Israel, Jordan and the QIZ Initiative. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 25(3).
India–Israel Defence Trade: Issues and Challenges: Strategic Analysis: Vol 41, No 4 (tandfonline.com)
Post Conflict Normalization through Trade Preferential Agreements: Egypt, Israel and the Qualified Industrial Zones (degruyter.com)
Estimation of the commercial effect of a Colombia-Israel FTA: Trade overview and partial equilibrium analysis, 2004-2014
The Significance of Security Policy in the Israel-United States Free Trade Agreement | SpringerLink
The League of Arab States Trade Boycott of Israel a Passé: Time for Renewed Debate - Kluwer Law Online
Focus: Trade unions in Israel: a resurgence of unionism? on JSTOR
Virtual water flows and water-footprint of agricultural crop production, import and export: A case study for Israel - ScienceDirect
Israel will struggle to build on gas export progress | Emerald Insight
The determinants of export performance of firms in selected MENA countries: comparison with CEE countries, Israel and Turkey
The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied ... - David Kretzmer, Yaël Ronen - Google Books
Public Policy and Politics via Documentaries and in-Depth TV News Programs
Documentaries and in-Depth TV News programs usually reflect a certain viewpoint. ZRB
Who owns Jerusalem? | DW Documentary - YouTube
What It’s Like to Grow Up in an Israeli Settlement | Op-Docs - YouTube
Life as Jewish settler in the West Bank | DW Documentary - YouTube
Israel: Breaking the Silence | DW Documentary - YouTube
Germans in Israel. Israelis in Germany | DW Documentary - YouTube
#Reporters: How the Haredim, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, make their own rules - YouTube
History and Important History Events
A History of Israel: From the Bronze Age through the Jewish Wars - Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Paul D Wegner - Google Books
National Days, National Identity, and Collective Memory: Exploring the Impact of Holocaust Day in Israel - Ariely - 2019 - Political Psychology - Wiley Online Library
Six Days In June: How Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli War - Eric Hammel - Google Books
From Groupthink to Polythink in the Yom Kippur War Decisions of 1973 in: European Review of International Studies Volume 5 Issue 1 (2018) (brill.com)
Golda Meir and the 1973 Yom Kippur War: Israel Affairs: Vol 26, No 2 (tandfonline.com)
Israel's Wars | Taylor & Francis Group (taylorfrancis.com)
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War - Benny Morris - Google Boeken
The rationality of terrorism and other forms of political violence: lessons from the Jewish campaign in Palestine, 1939–1947: Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol 22, No 2 (tandfonline.com)
The Intellectual Foundations of Jewish National Terrorism: Avraham Stern and the Lehi: Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol 25, No 4 (tandfonline.com)
Unknown Chapter in the Life of Menachem Begin and Irgun Zvai Leumi - ProQuest
Irgun Zvai Leumi (Irgun) - Green - 2011 - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library
The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror, 1940-1949 - Joseph Heller - Google Books
Ben‐Gurion, David (1886–1973) and the Haganah - Davidson - - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library
British Intelligence and the Jewish Resistance Movement in the Palestine Mandate, 1945–46: Intelligence and National Security: Vol 23, No 5 (tandfonline.com)
The capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann - YouTube
Uncut Chronicles: Gaza-Israel War. Deadly July 2014 - YouTube
Other Issues
Israel's nuclear amimut policy and its consequences: Israel Affairs: Vol 21, No 4 (tandfonline.com)
Israel's 54 year old nuclear reactor a safety risk - YouTube
The relative centrality of life domains among secular, traditionalist and Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men in Israel: Community, Work & Family: Vol 24, No 1 (tandfonline.com)
Education and Employment Among Ultra-Orthodox Women in Israel: Modernity and Conservatism—The Case of the Shas Party | SpringerLink
When Victimhood Goes to War? Israel and Victim Claims - Markiewicz - 2021 - Political Psychology - Wiley Online Library