Prediction comes as finance minister tries to gather support for austerity budget that also aims to lure ultra-Orthodox Jews into the workplace.

Education, health and food security got extra money, says Finance Ministry.

Government appoints Prof. Sheshinsky, who led a similar committee regarding royalties from oil and natural gas, as chairman.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid urged lawmakers to pass his proposed budget, which includes controversial austerity measures, to confront the budget deficit.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid draft budget for 2013-14 was met with a storm of criticism from both coalition and opposition lawmakers who vowed they would amend the most painful spending cuts and tax hikes it contains.

These were the words uttered this week by Likud backbenchers after the embarrassing defeat on the judicial selection committee. Suddenly, there's talk of limiting the number of terms a person can serve as prime minister.

Lapid receives boos as he addresses crowds, promises to work to legalize same-sex marriage; Minister Livnat: Shooting at gay youth club was hate crime.

Ever since the election, we have had no choice but to be each other's brothers (and sisters), for after all, family is something you cannot choose, even if you're allowed to.

When Yair Lapid set out to defend his cutbacks program, he evidently drew inspiration from messages used by Benjamin Netanyahu a decade ago.

Local authority members trying to block a Justice Ministry directive barring companies’ contributions to their coffers have enlisted Finance Minister Yair Lapid in the cause − evidently without his agreement.