Analysis Kahlon: A Sell-out Foretold

The Kulanu leader’s link-up with Netanyahu was only the latest in a series of moral implosions that belied his good-guy image

Israel's Finance Minister Blocks Formation of Minority Government

After coalition talks between Netanyahu and Lieberman hit a dead end, Moshe Kahlon says a government that doesn't have a majority would be pointless

Finance Minister Won't Serve Another Term in Narrow-majority Netanyahu Government

The Kulanu chairman and Avigdor Lieberman deny they're conspiring against Netanyahu, but they're taking a hard line in the coalition talks

Analysis Bibi’s Appetite for Power Is a Danger to the Economy

Rumors are that Netanyahu wants to move the powerful budget division from the treasury to the Prime Minister’s Office

Ultra-Orthodox Party Looks to Secure Stronghold on Government Amid Coalition Talks

United Torah Judaism hopes to push its religious agenda, as Netanyahu signals he has no intentions of naming far-right settler leader Bezalel Smotrich as justice minister

Netanyahu Offers Kahlon to Stay on as Finance Minister if He Rejoins Likud

From the far right, Rafi Peretz to be education minister, while Netanyahu hopes Bezalel Smotrich will agree to an expanded housing porfolio as coalition talks continue

Opinion Israel’s Center-left Must Ditch the Costume and Pivot to the Arabs

Analysis The Court Will Be Netanyahu's Punching Bag, With Nobody to Moderate the Blows

Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon says internal polling shows he lost voters because of his consistent defense of the legal system

Israel Could Face Austerity Under Next Government

But Finance Ministry officials downplay fiscal problems: ‘When you have 37.8 Celsius fever you don’t go to surgery’

Gantz’s Coalition Plan: Snap Deal With a Moderate, a Far-rightist and the ultra-Orthodox

Benny Gantz believes that if tapped by the president, he will have no problem forming a government, sources in his Kahol Lavan party say

Bank of Israel Urges Tax Hikes to Cover Growing Budget Deficit

Annual report scores government fiscal policy, warns overspending cannot continue at current levels

Analysis Kahlon’s Populism Will End Up Costing Us All Dearly

The credit rating report on Israel by Fitch this week is a warning about the growing price his policies are imposing

Parties Pushing Social Agenda Losing Their Appeal

Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu and Orli Levi-Abekasis's Gesher party lag far behind in an election that has marginalized social issues

Netanyahu Orders Survey to Look Into Legalization of Marijuana, Withdrawal From Golan Heights

Premier also using poll ahead of April 9 ballot to see whether Israelis want him as finance minister

Finance Minister Keeps His Calm as Budget Deficit Balloons

The last time the government overspending reached such levels was in 2013

Israeli Court Orders Rise in Dairy Prices

Ruling forces reluctant finance minister, Moshe Kahlon, to consent to increase

Israel's Finance Minister Signs Order Raising Tax on Rolled Tobacco

Moshe Kahlon reluctantly signs off on measure after High Court orders parity with cigarette tax ■ Shelf price of a a 50-gram package of rolled tobacco to increase from 85.41 shekels to 122.85

Israel's Finance Minister Unveils Plan for Massive Daycare Subsidies for Youngest

Moshe Kahlon ally denies timing of announcement connected with elections ■ The program can’t be approved until the next government is formed

Battered in Polls, Finance Minister Kahlon Reverses Netanyahu Rhetoric

Projected to go down to four or five seats, finance minister says he will recommend Netanyahu to be PM again, boasts he will give him majority

Business in Brief: Israel’s Budget Deficit Jumps to 3.3% of Gross Domestic Product

Taiwanese company buys 20.5% of Israel’s Camtek ■ Isramco, owner of 28.75% stake in the Tamar gas field, says profits for the field’s partners ■ Tel Aviv shares end higher in day of very light trading

Was Israel's Budget Deficit Fake News in 2018? Or Will It Be in 2019?

Treasury officials have been trading charges about who is responsible for allegedly cooking the books and why they did it

Opinion Three Slippery Politicians and a Policy Wonk

Sa’ar isn’t the most honest of men, Katz is a wheeler-dealer and Kahlon has shown extreme cynicism, but at least legal scholar Roy Shapira has spoken some sense

Moshe Kahlon Attacks Benny Gantz in Speech Launching Kulanu Campaign

Finance minister calls main Netanyahu rival 'privileged,' attacks 'inexperienced stars' on Israel's election

Editorial Growth of Israel's Debt Is Kahlon’s Failure

Israel's finance minister has raised the debt-to-GDP ratio to a dangerous level of 61.2 percent, with the numbers showing that this will only deteriorate throughout 2019 and in the years afterwards

Intel to Invest $11b in Israel and Add Thousands of Jobs, Finance Chief Says

Tech giant is expected to receive 3.2 billion shekel government grant to build new plant in Kiryat Gat

Kahlon Aide Faces Civil Service Prosecution for Landing Car She Received for Work

Lihi Golan, who is slated for the Kulanu Knesset list, received a car from the government which ended up destroyed in a car accident while her brother was driving it

Advocates for Thai Workers Threaten High Court Action if Israel Doesn't Implement Pension Deal

Under pressure from farmers, finance minister delayed implementation of an approved agreement signed with the Thai government to ensure the workers’ pension rights

Opinion Thank Kahlon for Defending the Israeli Government’s Gatekeepers

All of Israel’s recent governing coalitions have included a civil libertarian component. We can only hope that the next coalition will contain at least one party that will take up the liberal center-right banner

Editorial Netanyahu Shares Responsibility for Israel's Growing Deficit

The current government shouldn’t wait for its successor - Netanyahu and Kahlon must fix what they have broken