Information versus Insight: Shaping fund analysis and market dynamics
Though World War I’s Western Front often claims the spotlight, fierce battles also raged across the Middle East from 1915 to 1918. British and Ottoman forces vied for control after an Ottoman strike on the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal, sparking a British advance into Ottoman-held lands.
They soon met with fierce resistance along a fortified line stretching from Beersheba to Gaza, and two major assaults in early 1917 saw the British turned back.
In the midst of these clashes, pro-British Jewish residents in Palestine formed the NILI spy network to monitor Ottoman troop movements. One of its leaders, Sarah Aaronsohn, used the shutters of her seaside home to signal British ships, crafting a subtle code that went unnoticed by passing…
