By signaling with subsidies and payouts, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is stressing his government’s resolve to pull the economy permanently out of stagnation.
On October 7, 2023, the fundamentalist Islamist organization Hamas committed an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, October 7, 2023, killing over 1,400 Israelis.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel has a “legitimate right to defend itself."