The reform will impact multinational corporations operating in Israel such as Microsoft, Intel, Google, Apple and Amazon.
44% of Haredi parent don't object to their children learning English, as long as it's after school hours.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Finance Ministry dismisses airline’s counteroffer as a ploy to maintain grip on the company.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A “green” list of countries with low rates of infection would be the initial destinations in restarting flights.
Laundries, seamstresses/tailors and shoe repair shops are permitted to open. Barbers stay closed (it's sefirah time anyway).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs, applauded the move.
By JNi.Media
“We are preparing a new plan to support Gaza-vicinity communities, similar to that which was implemented after operation Protective Edge.”
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said Thursday that he would cut income tax for “working couples” immediately after the Passover holiday.
By JNi.Media
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”
Unlike the Banking Regulator, the Ministry of Finance thinks the merger will reduce competition in the banking industry.
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.'
By JNi.Media
MK Gafni: Real news for the children of Israel. New law will help level playing field for poorer children.
MK Boker says government funding for fire buffer lines could have prevented injuries and property damage.
By JNi.Media
For the duration of the next year, the quota for duty-free fresh meat imports will be doubled.
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.
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.
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?
By JNi.Media
According to the union, the Shabbat protocol will permit landings of already scheduled flights from abroad, but no takeoffs.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Barkat posted on his Facebook page a call to “the Treasury and its leader” accusing them of forgetting Jerusalem.
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 […]
By Rachel Levy
The prime minister's office plans to finance defense by relocating central region IDF bases and selling the land.
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 […]
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.
By Batya Medad
I can't imagine a tougher challenge for Lapid. It's so much easier to complain from the outside.
By Meir Indor
Thoughts and proposals on the ongoing nurses’ strike in Israel.
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’s Finance Ministry has authorized the sale of water purification tablets to Syria by Israel Chemicals.