When Israel cracked down on Palestinians who wanted to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which eventually led to the Gaza war and the carnage that followed, did it calculate the economic losses of its offensive? Up until the war, Israel saw modest growth in 2018 and 19, then the dip: GDP contraction of over 2% for 2020. Economic growth expectations were high for 2021 due to the vaccination of more than 50% of its population: 6.3%.