Toil and rubble: who will rebuild Gaza?
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The Economist
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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After two years of war, over 80% of the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed. Our correspondent assesses various plans for reconstruction. Do large lay-offs in American firms mean AI is coming for white-collar jobs? And remembering James Watson, the controversial scientist who discovered the structure of DNA.
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:15.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 0:25.2 | Thank you. provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Is AI coming for white-collar jobs? |
| 0:28.5 | That's something we've asked before, |
| 0:30.2 | but with the news that a number of big firms in America |
| 0:32.8 | have made large cuts in the past month, |
| 0:35.1 | things are looking a little perilous. |
| 0:38.9 | And something as beautiful as the double helix just had to exist. |
| 0:43.3 | That was James Watson's thought as he sought to work out the structure of DNA. |
| 0:47.7 | He finally achieved it, but not without a lot of controversy throughout his career. |
| 0:52.8 | Our obituraries editor remembers him. |
| 1:09.9 | But first... |
| 1:10.0 | In the Middle East, the temporary has a way of becoming fixed. |
| 1:14.6 | Israel's occupation of the West Bank has endured for half a century. |
| 1:18.8 | The Palestinian Authority, which was meant to be a five-year interim body, turned 30 last year. |
| 1:25.7 | No wonder that a month after the ceasefire in Gaza, |
| 1:29.1 | the two million people who live there worry that their despair will also become permanent. |
| 1:35.2 | There's no shortage of plans for rebuilding Gaza. |
| 1:40.6 | Greg Kahlstrom is our Middle East correspondent. |
| 1:44.4 | But the two plans that have had the most movement of late, |
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