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Economist E.J. Antoni is interviewed in front of art depicting the Nazi warship Bismarck, December 9, 2024. In August 2025, President Trump nominated Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
August 16, 2025, 2:34 pm
E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’
President’s nominee to run Bureau of Labor Statistics has also had exchanges about German victimhood with pundit Candace Owens, even as many isolated her for her vocal antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
Then outgoing Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer at a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2013. (Flash90)
June 1, 2025, 3:54 am
Stanley Fischer, world-famous economist and former Bank of Israel chief, dies at 81
US-Israeli financier, who was also Federal Reserve deputy head, hailed by Financial Times as ‘the most quietly influential person in global economics over the past several decades’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the IDF draft in Jerusalem, April 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2024, 8:43 pm
130 senior economists warn that lack of Haredi enlistment leading country to ‘abyss’
Group alerts lawmakers that the exemption from conscription alongside the funding of religious educational institutions threatens Israel’s existence
By Sharon Wrobel
A building damaged in a rocket attack in Tel Aviv on October 27, 2023. (Courtesy)
October 30, 2023, 1:53 pm
Warning of crisis, 300 economists urge government to reallocate nonessential spending
In letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Finance Minister Smotrich, senior economists call for changing budget priorities and stopping previously planned discretionary allocation
By Sharon Wrobel
The Supreme Court convenes for a hearing on the Central Election Committee decision to disqualify Likud party member Amichai Chikli from running in the upcoming Knesset election, October 6, 2022.
February 10, 2023, 11:42 am
Economic leaders urge PM to enter talks on judicial overhaul, offer counter proposal
Group made up of academics, business and high-tech chiefs warn of immense damage to country, propose first concrete alternative path to reforming legal system
By ToI Staff
Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with incoming Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 8, 2023, 11:15 pm
56 top int’l economists warn Netanyahu that legal overhaul will hurt economic growth
Open letter to PM, whose signatories include 11 Nobel laureates, says proposals will make Israel more like Hungary and Poland; 5 more unicorn firms said to pull funds from Israel
By ToI Staff
A handout photo from the Likud party shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with a group of businesspeople at his Likud party's headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2023. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2023, 6:04 pm
Bank CEOs warn PM that money starting to move out of country amid judicial shakeup
Netanyahu meets with businesspeople amid concerns that weakening courts will harm economy, insists opposite will occur; says open to dialogue but overhaul to go ahead without delay
By ToI Staff
Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist (Video screenshot)
October 11, 2021, 1:28 pm
Israeli-American Joshua Angrist among trio to win Nobel Prize in Economics
Professor awarded prize for his work on unintended experiments; taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and at Harvard before his current position at MIT
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this May 14, 2014, file photo, Alan Krueger, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, speaks at the 2014 Fiscal Summit organized by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
March 19, 2019, 10:09 am
Alan Krueger, noted US economist who advised Obama and Clinton, dies at 58
Jewish Princeton professor and minimum-wage-proponent mourned by Obama as ‘a fundamentally good and decent man’
By Josh Boak
(L-R) Per Stroemberg, Goeran K Hansson and Per Krusell announce the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Economics during a press conference at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery)
October 8, 2018, 2:49 pm
US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win Nobel Economics Prize
Nordhaus, who has Jewish roots, honored for integrating climate change into growth analysis; Romer hailed for tech innovations, says he ignored calls thinking they were spam
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the W.L. Zorn Arena November 1, 2016 in Altoona, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
November 2, 2016, 5:44 am
Hundreds of US economists warn against voting Trump
In letter, 370 economists say GOP nominee misleads public about jobs and growth, promotes ‘magical thinking and conspiracy theories’
By ToI Staff
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