Miki Levy

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Miki Levy

The Ayatollahs' Regime's Strangling of the Iranian People: Record Number of Executions

Over the past decade, the people of Iran have tried several times to overthrow the Ayatollah regime in Tehran: from the hijab protests that began in 2017 and the Bloody November uprising in 2019 to the mass “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement that erupted after the killing of Mahsa Amini in 2022. The response of the regime has been the same in each case: mass executions

June 17, 2025

Inside Trump's Head

Between the Saudi deal and the trade war, between the Houthis and Putin, and from the hostages to the war in Gaza — an analysis of President Trump’s statements, and where Israel stands.

May 14, 2025

The World Marching Backwards

As the number of antisemitism incidents continues to rise, the generation of Holocaust survivors is rapidly disappearing – and, across the world, the very word ‘Holocaust’ has been severed from its original definition in place of ‘genocide,’ which is now primarily associated with Israel and its war in the Gaza Strip. A worrisome picture on the eve Holocaust Memorial Day

April 24, 2025

The Houthi Threat: The Circle of Fire is Expanding

The Houthis blocked the Suez Canal, immobilized the port of Eilat, caused billions of dollars in global economic damage, and despite attacks by Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom, have systematically expanded their circle of fire and intensified threats against Israel. Shomrim analyzes the growing Houthi threat.

December 29, 2024

The Erdoğan Force: The Country that Takes Advantage of the Chaos in Syria

With NATO in one hand and the Muslim Brotherhood in the other—and leveraging proxies in several key countries in the region—Erdoğan is capitalizing on the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria to position Turkey as a regional superpower

December 11, 2024

Boycott? What Boycott? The Data Behind Israel’s Record-Breaking Year of Arms Exports

Israel is one of the 10 biggest arms exporters, with European countries accounting for a third of its defense exports – to the tune of around $4 billion a year. They mainly purchase Israeli UAVs, missiles, air defense systems and electronic warfare systems. Here are the figures

June 17, 2024

Tens of Thousands of Israelis are Still Displaced

Shlomi, Sderot, Kiryat Shmona and the Eshkol region communities are almost empty; 80 percent of residents have been evacuated from their homes and around 140,000 people have found alternative accommodation in some 90 communities across the country. Mapping Israel’s mass evacuation

June 5, 2024

The Numbers Behind the Israel Prize: Less Than 20 Percent women, Just 7 Percent Mizrahim

The political storm over the Israel Prize for 2024 is just the latest in a series of scandals surrounding the country’s highest cultural honor. Shomrim, in a joint project with Ynet, analyzed the hundreds of Israel Prize laureates since the establishment of the state: Of the 777 recipients, only 51 are Mizrahim. In the category of exact sciences, women make up just 2 percent of all recipients. The good news is that these trends are changing

April 30, 2024

Israel and The War in Gaza Take Up 20 Percent of Biden’s Agenda

Around one third of statements put out by the White House deal with the United States’ foreign relations, and the vast majority of them focus on the war in Gaza. Not China, Iran, Russia and not even Ukraine. Israel is at the top of the U.S. President Joe Biden’s daily agenda. Here are the figures

March 18, 2024

The Writing Was on the Blackboard: How UNRWA Blew Up in the West’s Face

With an annual budget of over $1 billion – half of which is spent in Gaza – the United Nations agency which is supposed to look after the welfare of Palestinian refugees, allowed Hamas to flourish. Here are the figures

January 29, 2024

Red Alert in the Red Sea: How the War is Impacting Israeli Trade

More than one quarter of imports to Israel come from Asia, with China in first place and Turkey in fifth. Apart from fresh produce, Israel is totally dependent on imports. Here’s the data, in light of the crisis in the Red Sea and the Turkish boycott

January 24, 2024

The Hague Files: 170 Cases, 62 Defendants, and 5 Charges of Genocide

Thus far, 170 cases have been heard by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Of them, just five have included charges of genocide – the accusation leveled against Israel by South Africa in a case that will start this week. Israel now finds itself in the same basket as Russia, Myanmar, Bosnia, and Serbia – all of which have faced similar accusations. The average length of a genocide case being heard at the ICJ is 15 years, compared to an average of four years for other cases heard in The Hague. Shomrim presents a guide to the confrontations at the International Court of Justice, showing every country that has been charged and the country of origin of all the judges.

January 10, 2024

Three Months After Hamas’ Surprise Attack: The Economic War Has Moved North

Businesses in Southern Israel are starting to recover – but that is not the case in the North, Jerusalem, and Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Israel’s war economy: an overview

January 7, 2024

Survival of the Biggest: The Israeli Economy after Two Months of War

In late October, around one-third of Israeli businesses were closed or operating with minimal staff. A month later, the situation has improved slightly and now just one quarter are in that situation. In the south, of course, the situation is worse and the smaller a business is the more vulnerable it is. Here are some figures after two months of war

December 13, 2023

Who is Treating the National Trauma? How Many Psychologists and Psychiatrists are There in Israel?

One psychiatrist for every 10,000 Israelis, one psychologist for every 1,000 and 250 Israelis for every social worker. Israel’s recovery from the fallout of the October 7 terror attack depends on these mental health professionals. An overview

December 11, 2023

We Hereby Condemn: 240 UN Condemnations of Israel – More Than Double Any Other Country

Neither the Russian invasion of Ukraine; nor the oppressive regimes in Iran and North Korea; nor the civil war in Syria, which created millions of refugees in Europe; and certainly not the millions of refugees who have been fleeing their homes in Africa for decades. None of these events and nations have received the same attention and condemnations from the UN General Assembly as Israel. Here are the figures

October 29, 2023

The Data Proves What Israel Has Been Claiming: Hamas is Worse than ISIS

Hamas is holding 239 hostages in Gaza. That’s double the number that ISIS took in Iraq during a decade of jihadi terror, when kidnapping was the weapon of choice for terrorists. Here’s the data‍

November 13, 2023

An Initial Look into the Unprecedented Fire Power and the Lack of Protection

Here are the figures

October 8, 2023

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