Israel Needs to Cut Over $8 Billion From 2020 Budget
Finance Ministry details reasons for deficit: Jerusalem’s socioeconomic decline, Holocaust survivor benefits and special education
Hagai Amit
Israel Reveals Its First-ever 'Air Force One.' Test Run Begins With a Hitch
Five years after Israeli Air Force One was ordered, at a cost of $164 million, the controversial project is about to begin its test flights
After U.S. Pressure, Security Cabinet Weighs Plan for Vetting Foreign Investment in Israel
Although the proposal is framed as 'supervision over foreign investment,' the real goal is create a mechanism for screening investments by Chinese companies and investment funds in strategic Israeli assets
Joe Lieberman's New Job: Advising Israel Aerospace Industries How to Promote Their Interest in Washington
Unable to sell to China or the Arab world, Israeli companies are buying and lobbying their way into expanded activities in the U.S.
Israeli GDP Growth Slackened to 0.6% Rate in Second Quarter
Revised figure comes amid slower rate of export growth than originally estimated
Drone Boats: Next Big Thing for Israel’s Defense Sector?
Elbit’s Seagull hunts down submarines and mines with nary a sailor on board
Israel's Government Budget Deficit Shrinks – but Only Due to Technical Reasons
Overspending remains high after discounting for tax revenue windfall in October 2018
Analysis The Israeli Army Doesn’t Need More Money, It Needs a Functioning Government
Netanyahu talks about a four-billion-shekel budget increase, but prolonged political paralysis is what is harming security
Israel’s Next Government Has a Long Economic To-do List and Little Time to Start on It
A yawning budget deficit and no budget at all for 2020 are topics A and B, but there are also issues in defense and health spending and creating economic growth engines
Analysis A New Election for Israel, but Mostly the Same Old Economic Platforms
Asked by TheMarker, the Joint List of Arab parties was the only outfit to give detailed answers about its socioeconomic platform. Likud has no platform at all
It All Started at Lunch With Sara Netanyahu: The Strange Deal Between Israel and Honduras
President Juan Hernández inaugurated a new trade mission in Jerusalem which could create 5,000 job openings for Hondurans in Israel. But the foreign ministry says no official agreement has been drafted
Netanyahu's Party Exposed Personal Details, Political Affiliation of Millions of Israelis
Party database, which was shut down after Haaretz query, allowed completely unsecured access to private info including phone and ID numbers ■ All parties in Israel have access to voter rolls, but are required by law to protect the information
Likud Telling Polling Stations Monitors to Collect Voter Data to Get Out Vote
While the technique is not illegal, technology makes it even more a threat to voter privacy
What Brings a Dubai Business Jet to Israel Three Times a Week?
Israel and the UAE continue to normalize relations, while tensions between Jerusalem and Arab neighbors are rising
Cannabis Reform That Netanyahu Promised Feiglin Unlikely to Take Effect
Health Ministry sources cast doubt over prospects of legislation promised by the prime minister, calling it de facto total legalization of cannabis via the medical system
Analysis Netanyahu Seeks to Silence Critical Media by Hitting Their Revenues
After failing to prevent channel from publishing leaked materials from his corruption probes, PM tells Israelis they should boycott it for producing show that 'slanders Israel'
Analysis Israel Aerospace Industries Is Set on Getting Itself IPO-ready
The state-owned defense company is cutting costs and is even shunning a marquis army contract for fear it would lose money
Analysis Social Issues Back on the Agenda - and Labor Might Stand to Gain
From the Ethiopian community protesting police brutality to demonstrations over day care centers, renewed social protest might play in the hands of Labor's new leader Amir Peretz
In Milestone, Israel Issues Its First-ever 50-year Bonds
Private placement of 500 million euro was bought up by a single European pension fund, Finance Ministry says
Right-wingers Shelve Development Plan Because It Doesn't Include West Bank Settlements
Far-rightist Bezalel Smotrich, the new transportation minister, is already making his presence felt by helping stall the plan that covers everything from energy to mining to water use
Analysis Ehud Barak Will Keep Cannabis Jobs Despite Running for PM
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is also eyeing a career in cannabis - a move that's increasingly logical
Israel Approves Budget Cuts Amid Warnings on Deficit
Ministers approve measures as red ink swells to 3.8% of GDP. Bank of Israel chief says more painful steps lie ahead
Trade Talks May See Israelis Drinking California Wines and Eating American Hummus
Documents show Washington’s demands for big increases in duty-free quotas for 40 different product categories
At Paris Air Show, Israel Displays Its Next-gen Drones
World’s leading aviation exhibit started on Monday amid highest levels of defense spending in more than 30 years
McDonald’s in Israeli Right’s Crosshairs Over Absence of West Bank Outlets
Citing anti-boycott law, group seeks to bar burger chain from lucrative Ben-Gurion Airport contract and warns other businesses may be targeted
Amazon's Fleet, Delivering to the Entire World, Begins Its Journey in Tel Aviv
Israel Aerospace Industries takes used passenger jets and converts them to cargo use for the retail giant, that shocked the local industry when it started operations here
The Cost of a New Election in Israel: Lawmakers Get Paid Though There’s No Work to Do
Idle lawmakers will cost government hundreds of millions of shekels this year, despite the fact that most of them have until now only voted to dissolve the Knesset
No Budget to Cover the Cost of a New Election, Israel Finance Ministry Says
As deadline for Netanyahu to form a coalition looms, Treasury estimates new elections would cost 475 million shekels 'for which there’s no money in the budget'
Despondent Over Left's Lack of Influence, Israeli Farmers Join Netanyahu's Party
As lobbying government officials hasn't been enough, hundreds have joined governing Likud in recent weeks over issues like water and foreign workers
Trade War Reaches Jerusalem: U.S. Pushes Israel to Drop Produce Import Duties
Currently, Israeli produce is not subject to import duties in the United States, whereas Israel taxes american exports limiting the quantities with quotas