Terrorism has seriously reduced Israel’s economic output, researchers found. According to the study published this week by Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israelis’ per-capita output over the past three years would have been 10 percent to 15 percent higher were it not for Palestinian terrorist attacks.
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