Eve here. Text of a tweet from Thomas Keith (follow him if you have a Twitter account!) Summariz is an estimate of the many pretty hard dollar costs estimates that Israel has incurred and wants to operate from a competitive zone. As most readers know, the majority of experts and other commentators consider the halt of hostilities to be temporary and expect more kinetic behavior, like more destruction.
At first he said that Israel has glass jaws. It was not on the receiver of the punishment that had been casually distributed for decades. As Astair Crooke said after the attack on October 7th, Israel’s rationality was to be safe for the Jews. That belief was corrupted at the time and not broken into bits.
The official tally looks modest compared to Keith’s list:
Israeli estimates show that losses affecting the economy, society and strategic infrastructure could raise costs to $20 billion.
The Israeli Tax Authority’s Compensation Fund said it received approximately 39,000 claims for the resulting direct damage material…
-Elijah J. Magnier🇪🇺 (@ejmalrai) June 26, 2025
Two days ago, the Times of Israel estimated the damage at just $1.5 billion, just twice the level of damage caused to the Hamas attack. For reference, Israel’s GDP is $513 billion.
Please note that although the list below is broad and spectral, it also omits costs.
1. A serious downdraft of the economy, in which more Israelis flee when the country is opened again, especially when the highly skilled economy relies on is reopened. We detailed its vulnerability in a June 2024 post, and Israel’s economy bleed as a damaged compound. Notably, we cited Israeli economists who say the country relies on only 300,000 experts1
2. Loss of IDF soldiers that Israel has not yet recognized.
3. The cost of damage to the port that could prolong if the insurance company is Leady, beyond the cost of repairing the infrastructure.
4. The probability that the BDS movement will acquire more steam as Israel continues to maintain genocide even during the Iranian conflict. From Aljazeera:
Since Israel began attacking Iran on June 13, it has disappeared from the headlines that it has been attracting global attention to the light-shape of Palestinians in occupied regions.
But Israel has continued to attack the Palestinians in Gaza, but a fatal raid on the West Bank…
“Israel continues to carry intense crime ajudge star civilians with attention away from Gaza,” said Omar Rahman, an Israeli and Palestinian expert at the Middle East Council, global affairs think tank.
“We have also seen many military and settlers’ activities recently in the West Bank,” he told Al Jazeera.
Israeli violence against helpless Palestinians on the GHF site on Tuesday is the highest single death wl in any GHF since the controversial organization began last month. It is being criticized for what the oppoponnts left behind the militarization of humanitarian relief.
Readers can add this and to Thomas Keith’s list. Full text under embed:
Israel entered into a 12-day exchange, convinced that it could absorb the costs. Ledgers now represent a nation with cash, talent and confidence. In the first week, the direct Military Outlay reached $500 million, with balloons reaching $725m every 24 hours, $593 million on offensive strikes that failed to silence…
-Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) June 25th, 2025
Israel entered into a 12-day exchange, convinced that it could absorb the costs. Ledgers now represent a nation with cash, talent and confidence. In the first week, direct Military Outlay was $500 million, balloons were 725 m every 24 hours, 593 m on offensive strikes that failed to silence Iran, and $132 million on desperate mobilization and missile intercept, passing 400 warheads. Only the iron dome batteries inhaled $20 million inhalation per day, and Iranian salvos passed them, erased 1.47 b with private property, 38 700 damage claims, 11,000 evacuations, 30 high-rise skeletons earned the financial breadth of Tel Aviv’s Tel Aviv.
The Wiseman Institute, an export of Israeli fame, has become fragments, destroyed 45 labs with biomedical IP incinerated, $500m of 500m of $500m, and decades of grant pipeline and pharma partnerships have been separated from the table overnight. Intel’s Kiryat Gat Fabs have frozen midwarfers and chased the supply chain, which supplies 64% of Israel’s exports and 1/5 of GDP. The Skeleton Crews Bacase 300 000 high-tech Now RNS was yanked from the R&D floor and data center to protect the empty runways of the Tel Nof Reservoir. Commercial flights have been suspended twice at Ben Gurion, insurance companies jacking premiums, and foreign airlines have re-routed to countries that once sold ISELF as a safe hub for the region.
The capital is already in flight. Over 80,000 Israelis moved in 2024, the largest leak since 1948, to slap them in 2024, with a two-year total of over 500,000, forced Netanyahu cabinets and banned them to leak Jewish dual nationals. Investor confidence: Venture funds suspend term sheets, construction sites endure Idel, megaprojects wait for credits no longer, not credits. The Treasury has stared at a deficit set to show public debt above 75% of GDP, slicing 200m from hospitals and schools, seeking an extra $857 million in defence cash.
Analyst Peg Israel’s Aggate losses between 11.5b and 17.8b, up to 3.3% GDP, counting long tail hits from export halts, IPO cancellations and downgrades of sovereignty risk. Still sitting on a stockpile of uranium, Iran forced a small portion of its self-styled “startup nation” into liquidity schlurble, insurance panic, brain-driven spirals. Tel Aviv Promise Deterce; Tehran handed out a visible stamp of red ink balance sheet and strategic humiliation.
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It is not clear how deep and resilient Israel’s economy (and society) is. The sub on anti-war rights claims that Israel is a false economy and is more of an empire’s post base than a self-supporting nation. This is a topic I would like to explore further, but at this point there is no bandwidth. Reader data points (better yet data sources) are very welcome.
On the surface, Israeli import and export statistics do not show that many of us rely on…
To flip the question: What happens to Israel, especially if they continue to struggle with the departure of highly skilled, highly mobile professionals and experts? Many argue that the US and wealthy Zionists can continue to own Israel on an open basis. But what if Covech’s “talent” leaves and leaves the shutter to bring in support to something as increased as the welfare queen? And does a state that has become a lot of dependencies protect itself with a united neighbour against it?
It’s a compilation of highlights from important Mondoweiss stories. Seriously, it explains serious and potentially irreparable damage throughout the economy:
Economic indicators are nothing more than economic catastrophes. Over 46,000 companies have gone bankrupt, tourism has stopped, Israel’s credit ratings have fallen, Israeli bonds are sold at almost “junk bond” levels, and foreign investment, which has already dropped 60% in the first quarter results of Israel’s far-right government police before October 7th, shows no recovery. The majority of the funds invested in Israeli investment funds have been diverted to foreign investments as Israelis do not want their pension funds and insurance funds or their savings to Israeli destiny. This has led to incredible stability in the Israeli stock market as foreign equity and bond funding generated profits in foreign currency. However, Intel has given up on a $25 billion investment plan in Israel. This is the biggest BDS victory ever.
The crisis is struggling with the Israeli economy’s means of production.
These are all financial indicators. However, the crisis is struggling with the means of production of the Israeli economy. Israel’s power grid has adely switched to natural gas, but relies on coal for demand. Colombia is Israel’s largest supplier of coal, and it announced it has suspended coal freight to Israel as genocide is ongoing. After Colombia, the next two largest suppliers are South Africa and Russia. Israel can be trusted without continuous electricity, and continuous electricity can no longer pretend to be a developed economy. A server farm won’t work without 24 hours of power. And no one knows how many blackouts Israel’s tech sector could potentially survive. International high-tech companies are already beginning to close their Israeli branches.
Assist: Colombian coal supply Tess will clearly have a serious impact, if nothing else, on prices, as Israel is running the alternative source of Skhlman. It is yet to be seen whether resu is a daily stoppage of Ukrainian style, but if so, for a sophisticated economy, its impact will collapse. These are the top coal exporters for each TraderMex solution in 2023, so Israel has no alternatives.
But how quickly can you line up replacement supply contracts? And what new Didle cargo is vulnerable to Houthi attacks?
On the flip side, this section may underestimate the worsening state of Israeli business. In Julie’s story, Cradle cites the CEO of Israeli Information Services and credit risk management company Cofacebdi. He said 60,000 businesses had been closed by the end of 2024.
Israel’s economy is far from the soybean angle pic.twitter.com/2ipepelpyb
-Attack_🇵🇸 (@palestine001_) Undergaza July 17, 2024
Return to Mondoweiss:
Israel’s reputation as a “startup Nation” depends on its technical department, which depends on highly educated employees. Israeli scholars report that the efforts of student camps have led to a significant decline in collaboration with universities abroad. Israeli newspapers have many articles about the departure of Israeli education. Famous economist Professor Dan Ben David argued that the Israeli economy has 300,000 people (senior staff at universities, high-tech companies and hospitals). With 11 people leaving, he says, “We will not learn about third world countries. We are no longer.” …
Two sectors of the Israeli economy that have not reported a crash are arms companies. This reports high sales (although most of them are domestic and armed with genocide), and “exit” – cleaning bodies in Israel’s technical sector where international companies are looking for bargains. Even Google has expressed interest in purchasing Wiz, an Israeli cybersecurity company founded by Israeli intelligence agents.
In the age of information economy, the economic outlook of a nation is not determined by the quality of the workforce, even raw materials. Instead, we live in being an “economy of expectation.” The hype for Israel’s “Startup Nation” has been changed to #shutdownnation. Two Israeli economists, Jugen Kendel and Ron Tor, have released a secret report predicting that Israel will not survive until its 100th year. The report is kept secret. Because they don’t want it to self-cover the scholarship, but they did an interview about it.
