Inflation targeting is gaining popularity as a framework for conducting monetary policy. At the same time many countries employ some sort of foreign exchange intervention policy assuming that these two policies can coexist. This paper attempts to show that both policies are not sustainable. Israel is a classic test case. We test our hypothesis using information from the financial markets. The r...

An intraspecific study of Phlebotomus sergenti was performed on populations from Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Uzbekistan by four different approaches: geometric morphometrics, RAPD analysis, internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) sequencing (nuclear marker), and cytochrome B sequencing (mitochondrial marker). In RAPD analysis, distinct clades were formed in accordance with the geographical origin o...

For many scholars working on Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s, Italy is taken as greatest threat to newly-established Republic and one that dominated making this period. did adopt a threating stance with Italian occupation of Dodecanese islands its expansionist aims Asia Africa, which were cause concern for government. A re-examination Turkish-Italian political economic relations within broa...

In 1973, the archaeological expedition of Kamianets-Podilskyi Pedagogical Institute under leadership A. F. Hutsal and I. S. Vynokur investigated mound no. 1 near Redvyntsi village in Khmelnytskyi District Oblast, upper reaches Southern Buh basin. The graveyard five mounds was located 0.5 km southwest from Redvyntsi, on territory collective farm garden. height embankments, 50—60 m each other, 1....

Prior to 1970, modern biblical scholars gave little attention to the role of the natural world in the literature of the Bible and in the religion culture of ancient Israel. Too often it was assumed that the religion of Israel was a religion of history, and that the Bible focused exclusively on the relationship between God and humans. The natural world was viewed merely as the stage on which the...

The region of the Middle East is highly conflict-loaded. The absence of one distinct regional power may be considered both cause and consequence of this structural feature. At the same time, there are significant power gaps between states in the Middle East, with Israel among the most powerful actors and accordingly defined as a potential regional power. Due to the specific empirical setting of...

the present article discusses about the us security policy after the incident of 11 september 2001, with reference to the middle east, in general and iran in particular. the author focuses the design of current us administration and its endeavor to capture some of the strategic places in the name of terrorism and as a savior of democracy such as in afghanistan and iraq, although those designs h...