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Israel / Business and Economy

Tax Changes to Hit Multinational Corporations, Bring Israel In Line With OECD Reforms

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The reform will impact multinational corporations operating in Israel such as Microsoft, Intel, Google, Apple and Amazon.

Featured / Haredim & Hassidim / Government / On Campus / Education

Finance Ministry Mulls After-School Core Curriculum Classes for Haredi Children

By Jewish Press News Desk

44% of Haredi parent don't object to their children learning English, as long as it's after school hours.

Headline

Report: El Al Rejects Government Bailout, Offers Counterproposal

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Israeli Finance Ministry dismisses airline’s counteroffer as a ploy to maintain grip on the company.

Headline / Travel

Report: Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport May Reopen by June

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

A “green” list of countries with low rates of infection would be the initial destinations in restarting flights.

Headline / Government / Coronavirus

It's Official: Amended Emergency Regulations Approved by the Cabinet Sunday Morning

By Jewish Press News Desk

Laundries, seamstresses/tailors and shoe repair shops are permitted to open. Barbers stay closed (it's sefirah time anyway).

Headline / UK / Hezbollah

UK Finance Ministry Freezes Hezbollah Assets

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs, applauded the move.

Terrorism / Gaza / The Knesset

Knesset Internal Affairs, Defense Committees Meet near Gaza Border to Discuss Damage from Arab Arson

By JNi.Media

“We are preparing a new plan to support Gaza-vicinity communities, similar to that which was implemented after operation Protective Edge.”

Featured / Israel / Business and Economy

Kahlon To Cut Taxes After Passover

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said Thursday that he would cut income tax for “working couples” immediately after the Passover holiday.

Israel / Business and Economy

Finance Ministry Opposes Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot-Igud Merger

By Jewish Press News Desk

Unlike the Banking Regulator, the Ministry of Finance thinks the merger will reduce competition in the banking industry.

Featured / Israel / Business and Economy / China

Thousands of Chinese Construction Workers to Arrive in Israel

By JNi.Media

'The wheels are starting to move, and soon the Chinese workers will arrive in Israel [and] completely change the face of the construction and infrastructure industry in Israel, contributing to stability and sanity for many years.'

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Finance Committee Approves Long Term Savings for Every Child Retroactive to Jan. 2015

By JNi.Media

MK Gafni: Real news for the children of Israel. New law will help level playing field for poorer children.

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria / Weather

Bereaved MK Lashes Out at Finance Ministry Over Fire Crisis

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

MK Boker says government funding for fire buffer lines could have prevented injuries and property damage.

Jewish / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Religion

Finance Minister Exposing Fresh Meat Market to Foreign Competition

By JNi.Media

For the duration of the next year, the quota for duty-free fresh meat imports will be doubled.

IDF & Security / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

All-Time High Israeli Tax Collection: $57 Billion So Far in 2016

By JNi.Media

Based on the tax collection bonanza, it appears government could go on a mad spending spree, especially on security, and still end up with only a 2% of GNP deficit.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / Settlements

UN Report on Failed Gaza, PA Governments: It's All Israel's Fault

By JNi.Media

We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Business and Economy / Judea & Samaria

Ahmad Tibi, Yisrael Beiteinu, Cooperating to Protect Arab Workers from Unjust Taxation

By JNi.Media

Why would Israel be so invested in taking money away from the only PA Arabs who still have something good to say about it, and give it to the PLO?

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Religious & Secular in Israel / Local

Airport Union's Unique Strike Threat: Shabbat Observance

By JNi.Media

According to the union, the Shabbat protocol will permit landings of already scheduled flights from abroad, but no takeoffs.

Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Bill Approved to Increase Competition in Israeli Financial Sector

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The main clauses of the bill include a separation of the major Israeli banks from Israeli credit companies. The three largest Israeli banks also currently own and operate the credit card companies.

US / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Knesset Committee Approves Submission to US IRS Tax Compliance Act

By JNi.Media

The committee also succeeded in repelling the Israeli tax authority, which wanted initially to be able to use information gathered by Israeli banks for the IRS.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Knesset Committee Slams Finance Minister on Fear of Fighting Monopolies

By JNi.Media

Finance Committee Chairman Gafni (UTJ) said "with all due respect to the Finance Ministry and talks of reform, in practice the prices have not gone down."

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

New Legislation Would Free Up $1.5 Billion in Credit for Israeli Housing Starts

By JNi.Media

The construction section of the current Sales Law is outdated, and has led real estate companies to develop their own ways of bypassing it, at the expense of their customers.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy / Religious & Secular in Israel

Haredi Party Spearheading Effort to Protect Israeli Religious Charities from US Tax Authorities

By JNi.Media

Using the US' enormous economic clout, FATCA bullies the world's financial institutions into reporting on their American clients to Uncle Sam.

Government / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Jerusalem Declares War on Israeli Govt. with Garbage Trucks and Psalms

By JNi.Media

Barkat posted on his Facebook page a call to “the Treasury and its leader” accusing them of forgetting Jerusalem.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Gasoline Prices to Drop by Nearly 5 Percent

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The government once again is preventing Israeli motorists from enjoying the full effect of the plunging price of oil and will limit the drop in the price at the pump to 25 agorot midnight Monday. A hike in the excise tax will rake in another 5 agorot a liter for the Finance Ministry. The new […]

IDF & Security / Government / News Briefs

Israel to Vacate 'All' IDF Bases in Central Region

By Rachel Levy

The prime minister's office plans to finance defense by relocating central region IDF bases and selling the land.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Cabinet Passes ‘Austerity Budget’

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Cabinet Monday evening passed a two-year budget, nearly five months late, with tax hikes and across-the-board cuts in spending, Only one minister voted against the  budget, the second and last time it will cover two years instead of one. Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who is chairman of the Yesh Atid party, said after the […]

Israel / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Fayyad Hospitalized

By Jewish Press News Desk

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was hospitalized on Monday after being feeling ill at his office in the Finance Ministry, which he temporarily heads, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency. Fayyad was rushed to a Ramallah hospital reportedly was in stable condition.

Shiloh Musings

Do We Finally Have a Coalition?

By Batya Medad

I can't imagine a tougher challenge for Lapid. It's so much easier to complain from the outside.

Op-Eds

The Adventures of the Jewish Nurse in the Land of Israel

By Meir Indor

Thoughts and proposals on the ongoing nurses’ strike in Israel.

Business/Finance / Israel / News Briefs / SciTech

Microsoft, Israel To Sign Strategic Partnership

By Malkah Fleisher

Just ten days after the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrived in Jerusalem to discuss a memorandum of understanding between his company and Israel’s Finance Ministry to form a strategic partnership to develop and promote technology.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Israel Authorizes Sale of Water Purification Tabs for Syria

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel’s Finance Ministry has authorized the sale of water purification tablets to Syria by Israel Chemicals.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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