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Interior minister approves doubling property taxes on vacant Israeli apartments

The tax hike, effective January 2014, will apply to flats that are empty nine months a year.

By Nimrod Bousso | May 20, 2013 | 05:16 AM

Municipal tax hike on 'ghost apartments' in Israel stalled at Interior Ministry
By Ranit Nahum-Halevy | 1
Tel Aviv to double tax on empty apartments
By Vadim Sviderski
Cabinet approves recommendations aimed at easing housing shortage
By Moti Bassok and Ranit Nahum-Halevy

By the People founder Oren Glanz, left, employees Osnat Heretz, Avital Yanovsky, Doron Hyman

Israeli company gives silicon wadi’s senior citizens a second chance

When Mercado Software faced liquidation and was sold to a U.S. company at the end of 2008, one of the dozens of employees left...

By Haim Bior | 05:00 AM

Three years on, not everyone happy with Africa Israel bailout

Lev Leviev has now put some NIS 610 million into Africa Israel Investments over the past three years, the latest installment a...

By Michael Rochvarger | 04:20 AM

Business in Brief

Leviev will weigh diamond polishing in IsraelLev Leviev, one of Israel’s biggest diamond moguls, said Sunday that Zionism not...

| 03:51 AM

The Israeli app that said no to iPhone

Everything.Me extracted itself from the warm bear hug of Apple because the operating system on iPhones was just too rigid.

By Johnny Zilber | May 20, 2013 | 12:05 AM

For victims of Israel's economic policy, the cure is worse than the disease

Those who have suffered for the last decades are fodder for the next OECD report showing rise rates of poverty and income inequality in Israel.

By Sami Peretz | May 19, 2013 | 10:41 PM

Market Report / Tech stocks, Teva boost TASE

Last week's rally continued on improving sentiment about the economic outlook in the U.S.

By Eran Azran | May 19, 2013 | 08:30 PM

Naftali Bennett has transformed Israel's trade ministry, both in name and in agenda

The former Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor says it will act to boost competition, bring Haredim into Israel's work force and aid small businesses.

By Ora Coren | May 19, 2013 | 05:12 PM

Israel is world's largest exporter of drones, study finds

In eight years, Israel exported $4.6 billion worth of UAVs to countries ranging from Britain to India and Uganda.

By Gili Cohen | May 19, 2013 | 04:32 PM | 11

IDF soldiers to operate ports if workers strike

Ashdod union chief: Naftali Bennett is a populist cabinet minister who's feeding the public nonsense.

By Avi Bar-Eli, Ora Coren | May 19, 2013 | 11:26 AM

Interior minister's intimate wedding held at powerful Israeli lobbyist's home

Israeli power couple Gideon Sa'ar and journalist Geula Even's nuptials included quite a few movers and shakers; friend Shelly Yacimovich declined to attend.

By Tali Heruti-Sover | May 19, 2013 | 11:02 AM | 3

Taking Stock / Lapid let us down

No minister ever had support like Finance Minister Yair Lapid. Yet he chose the convenience of cozying up with the strong and ignoring the weak.

By Guy Rolnik | May 19, 2013 | 10:31 AM

Electricity authority seeking to spur private power competition

Israel's electricity regulatory authority decides to limit the market share of future private electricity providers.

By Avi Bar-Eli | May 19, 2013 | 05:15 AM

Dollar rises 2.3% against the shekel after Bank of Israel rate cut

The central bank's surprise decision last week to cut rates and buy foreign currency followed concerns that the strengthening shekel was hurting exporters.

By Eran Azran | May 19, 2013 | 04:26 AM

Business Opinion

The budget cut that cuts too deep

By Meirav Arlosoroff | 02:44 AM

All that glitters / The shekel besieged, Fischer leads the cavalry charge

By Eytan Avriel | 04:56 AM

Lapid's budget: Israel's poor stay poor, while its rich get rich

By Eytan Avriel | 10:30 AM | 6

Start-up of the Week

Startup of the week / Using banks to move money is so yesterday

By Amitai Ziv | 02:30 PM

Startup of the week / Commerce Sciences puts you in that buying mood

By Inbal Orpaz | 04:05 PM

Startup of the week / Bringing the stadium to the couch

By Amitai Ziv | 03:56 AM

David's Harp

Outgoing Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer.

David's Harp / Fischer's act of desperation

By David Rosenberg | 09:59 AM | 2

David's Harp / Time to uncork the fiscal champagne?

By David Rosenberg | 05:26 AM

David's Harp / Israel with Open Skies and without El Al

By David Rosenberg | 12:42 PM

Real Estate

Home prices in Israel rose 6% in first quarter of 2013

By Raz Smolsky | 09:30 AM | 4

Treasury planning to tax profits on second homes

By Meirav Arlosoroff | 05:39 AM

Alony Hetz makes foray into U.S. real estate

By Michael Rochvarger | 04:00 AM

Tech roundup

Tech roundup / Stymieing smartphone smugglers

By Ruth Schuster | 10:32 AM

Tech roundup / What Else? A smart launcher; soccer still popular

By Ruth Schuster | 10:26 AM

Facebook in advanced negotiations to buy Israeli start-up Waze for $1 billion

By Amir Teig, Inbal Orpaz | 01:01 PM

DNA of a Startup

What does it mean to live in a startup nation?

By Liz Steinberg | 01:59 PM | 2

Mission (almost) impossible

By Eytan Avriel | 01:45 PM

Hello, consumer

By Tali Heruti-Sover | 01:40 PM