About 9 million people live in Israel or Palestine. A change of prime minister might affect people there to an extent of 1 life-month per person, for a total effect of 750,000 life-years.

Human News aims to devote 1 character to each 40,000 life-years, or 1000 average lives. Thus, this story can have 750,000 / 40,000 = about 19 characters.

Comparing the space devoted to articles in Human News and on the front page of the standard newspaper, this article occupies 1% of Human News and 19% of the standard newspaper.