Zvi Zrahiya
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Ten months before it goes into effect, Knesset approves 2019 budget
Home > Israel News > Business Ten Months Before It Goes Into Effect, Knesset Approves 2019 Budget Lawmakers pass spending package quickly after coalition crisis of Haredi draft is resolved Nearly 10 months before it is to take effect, the 2019 budget was approved by the Knesset late on Wednesday. → Read More
Knesset finance panel clears Israel's 2019 budget delayed by coalition dispute
Spending package due to go to plenum Tuesday, with final votes slated for Wednesday evening, if no new crisis erupts → Read More
Israel Seeks Solution to Budget Stalemate as Party Leaders Dig in Heels
Efforts are complicated by the absence of the prime minister, who is on a trip to the United States → Read More
New Budget Crisis as Israel's Defense Chief Demands Extra Army Spending
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says a 2015 agreement allocates $2.4 billion not currently in the 2019 budget → Read More
Housing Prices Take a Dip – and Kahlon Comes Under Fire for It
Statistics bureau says prices were down 1.2% in final quarter of 2017 and up just 2% for all of the year → Read More
Netanyahu Investigations Prompt New Israeli Bill Limiting Tax Exemptions
Meretz lawmaker to submit a bill that would amend the so-called Milchan Law, which gives tax breaks to new immigrants and Israelis returning from abroad → Read More
For Netanyahu's cabinet it's about political survival now, not the economy
With distracted ministers, 2018 may turn out to be a wasted year regarding economic achievements → Read More
After Negotiations, Slimmer Arrangements Law and Budget Go to Knesset Sunday
Kahlon agrees to cut a third of law’s clauses to ensure speedy approval by lawmakers → Read More
Police Recommend Charging Israel's Labor Minister With Breach of Trust, Fraud
After being probed for months, Haim Katz now faces charges of fraud and breach of trust in a host of cases pertaining to Israel Aircraft Industries; Katz shrugs off allegations as 'bizarre' → Read More
Bank of Israel official urges patience on shekel strength
Tells lawmakers central bank taking creative measures to reverse trend as dollar hits seven-year low → Read More
Jewish National Fund to Give State NIS 1 Billion in 2018, Get Tax Exemption
The terms of the agreement represent a compromise between the Finance Ministry and the opposition in the Knesset from the JNF paying a larger sum → Read More
Teva in Crisis: Group of Investors May Offer to Buy Part of Teva’s Israel Operations
Topaz brothers recruiting investors to make bid as unions ready to step up labor actions → Read More
Pressed by Nationwide General Strike, Israel to Seek Concessions From Teva
A nationwide strike shut down large parts of the economy on Sunday as Netanyahu slates a meeting with the pharmaceutical giant's CEO → Read More
Israel Police investigations into Netanyahu ally Bitan puts state budget in danger, treasury officials say
The absence of Likud MK and coalition whip David Bitan due to ongoing fraud and money laundering investigations would prove problematic for the 2019 budget, Finance Ministry officials say → Read More
Minister Launches Drive to Shutter Israeli Public Broadcaster That He's Threatened to Sue
Citing budgetary needs, Interior Minister Arye Dery suggests closing down Kan, whose Channel 11 has run several critical stories on him in recent months → Read More
Women’s Retirement Age in Israel to Remain Fixed at 62
Debate on the issue has been postponed until next year, even though it was supposed to have been resolved by the end of 2016 → Read More
With Kara as communications minister, Netanyahu expected to continue to hold sway
Senior Likud officials surprised about Kara’s appointment, and Knesset sources say that some of those who declined the Communications Ministry did so out of concern that Netanyahu would continue to set policy there → Read More
Jewish National Fund Moves to Give $8.2 Million to Partisan Recipients
Major recipients include World Zionist Congress factions representing Likud, Zionist Union, Meretz and Yisrael Beiteinu → Read More
Disability benefits in Israel fall victim to politics
What was supposed to be a done deal is being sent back for another committee to examine, so that the prime minister can take credit for raising allowances → Read More
Israel’s new public broadcasting era begins on Monday after three years of political wars
Israel Broadcastign Authority's successor, Kan, will go on the air side by side with a separate news corporation → Read More