The study was conducted by Efraim Benmelech, a professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and Hebrew University economists Claude Berrebi and Esteban Klor, and reported on by Yishai Schwartz of The New Republic magazine.

The trio collected data on home demolitions and terror attacks from the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2005). Receiving "zero help from any government agency", according to Benmelech, they had to rely on reports from Palestinian sources, human rights group B'tzelem, and publicly available Israeli security information.

Differentiating between "precautionary demolitions" and "punitive demolitions", the authors found a "48.7 percent increase in the number of suicide terrorists from an average district" in response to precautionary demolitions, but an 11.7 and 14.9 percent decrease in attacks in the months following punitive demolitions.

The logic behind the policy is to give potential suicide bombers reason for pause before carrying out their plans. It follows that a terrorist planning a suicide mission does not fear bodily harm or death, so something else must be added to the stake to deter them. That something is potential harm to their families.

It is also hoped—and indeed, has been known to play out—that those same families would be incentivized to turn in their potential terrorist relatives to protect themselves and their homes. Finally, demolitions are meant to undermine the culture of celebrating terror by bringing it home to the community.

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