This week’s covers

Our cover story in most of the world this week looked at Israel as it turns 75. Since its founding on May 14th, 1948, it has constantly defied doomsayers. Today it is one of the richest, most innovative countries in the world. It is the Middle East’s only vibrant democracy, and its relations with Arab countries have started to improve, as shown by the Abraham accords of 2020. Yet it has failed to resolve its oldest problem—the grim plight of the Palestinians—and now faces new ones, such as political polarisation, which demographic shifts will surely accentuate, and a fading of bipartisan support in America.