Prime minister’s insistence on managing the coronavirus crisis alone, while undermining government’s decision-making processes brought us to the failure of the second wave
The coronavirus threatens to leave long-term unemployment in its wake, and the government is only starting to think about how to cope with it
The treasury's accountant general doesn't want to be there when Israel's credit rating is lowered, and that's why he's stepping down
No data, no organization, no plan: Only the world's best governments managed to weather the crisis. Israel now has to learn from them
Old age homes did a pretty good job of containing the virus during the first wave of the virus
Commission paid to Barzilai Medical Center's fundraising firm violates terms of donation
Its testing policy has been too limited to gauge the real size of the pandemic
Policy decisions were based on contagion models developed by physicists and mathematicians ‒ not epidemiologists, and no one predicted the number of new coronavirus cases would in fact fall once the lockdown was lifted
The coronavirus exposed Israel’s shortcomings and creates a window of opportunity for reforms. Yisrael Katz just may be the one to lead them
It's no surprise that Israel's ineffective government is ranked among the weakest among the developed nations
The crude sacking by Miri Regev of her ministry's director general was just one example of how this isn't politics as usual
The team advising the National Security Council often made suggestions with no basis in fact
Netanyahu’s managerial mediocrity has hamstrung Israel’s ability to deal with the coronavirus, leading credit rating agency Moody’s to lower the country’s outlook to Stable from Positive
The Health Ministry’s cumbersome testing system takes far too long to deliver results
Team of experts say 1.5 million Israelis could go back to the office, with strict controls to remain in place on certain areas
An experiment with continual monitoring at Israel Aerospace shows the way. But Health Ministry isn’t interested
Some $39 billion of possible lost GDP translates into hundreds or thousands of people potentially committing suicide
This forecast is predicated on the current situation, after the country has been put in a partial shutdown for a week
Demand for loans is growing and lending rates are rising as lockdown hits business, but banks are granting credit as per regulators’ suggestions
Doctors and academics are begging to help the coronavirus testing effort but the Health Ministry’s refusal is bringing us closer to total shutdown of the economy
As government debates more severe measures to contain the coronavirus, they warn the damage could be akin to the impact of the Yom Kippur War
Suspicions about political conflicts of interest haven’t been proved, but there's plenty of reason to worry. That casts a pall over the whole process
Treasury sees quarantines, drop in air cargo costing billions of shekels
The legacy of the Netanyahu years is a large budget deficit that will leave the government unable to launch fiscal policies to counter a downturn
The cupboard is bare and coronavirus looms large, but politicians vowed no new taxes
Israel could be left with with lower revenue and fewer ways to lure foreign investment under proposed rules on global taxation of digital companies
Under the plan, some 300,000 Palestinians in the city could become Israeli citizens
Convictions of five Health Ministry food service workers for bribery, breach of trust surprised no one
Politicians and the courts have denied the next generation of ultra-Orthodox Israelis the basic right to an education
2018 saw a slight decline in its share of the population and total income, but it’s still at its highest point since 1997