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Moshe Kahlon

Featured / Israel / Business and Economy / Real Estate

Finance Minister Katz Lowering Real Estate Taxes in Bid to Restore the Market

By Na'amit Leavitt

With the financial challenges brought on by the Coronavirus crisis and Katz's restoration of reasonable tax rates, Israel is a Real Estate buyer's market once again.

Israel / Business and Economy / Coronavirus

Israel Allocates NIS 10 B. to Head Off Corona-Generated Financial Crisis

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The government announced Sunday that anyone arriving in Israel from abroad will have to self-quarantine, and only foreigners who can prove they have a place to self-quarantine will be admitted into the country.

Israel / Business and Economy

Israel Gets NIS 17.6 Trillion Valuation

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

TASE conducted an initial estimate of the valuation the State of Israel would achieve if it were floated on the exchange.

Government / Business and Economy

Israel to Launch Secondary Stock Exchange for Small, Medium Sized Businesses

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon: “The measure comes in addition to a number of steps we have taken in order to ease tax rates and the regulatory burden for small and medium sized companies."

Headline / Politics / Government / Elections

Kahlon Attacks Netanyahu: 'You'll Be Prime Minister Another 20 Years and Still Do Nothing'

By JNi.Media

"You are a philosopher, you only know how to talk and leave the doing to the rest of us," Kahlon told Netanyahu bitterly.

Headline / Politics / Government / Business and Economy

Bank of Israel Governor Won't Run for Next Term over Finance Minister's Shenanigans

By JNi.Media

Flug accuses the Finance Minister of sheer populism: Mechir Lemishtaken costs the public coffers billions of dollars and creates harmful distortions to both the subsidized and free housing market.

Government / Science and Tech

Israel Launches $3 Million Tech Innovation Pilot

By JNi.Media

"We are opening the door for technology companies to conduct experiments they could not otherwise undertake and are creating future opportunities for implementing new forms of innovative regulation for the entire Israeli economy.”

Headline / IDF & Security / Politics / Elections

Liberman, Netanyahu Popularity Skyrockets in Wake of Syria, Gaza Assertiveness

By JNi.Media

The satisfaction with Netanyahu and Liberman is reflected in the survey's snapshot of the election results, if said elections had been held today.

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 Uncensored with Josh Hasten

Israel Uncensored: It's Time to Call Out the 'Right Wing'

By The Land of Israel

Why is it moral for members of Israel’s ‘right wing’ government to hold meetings with top-level Palestinian Authority officials, an entity that incites against Israel and the Jewish People on a daily basis? Joshua Hasten today on Israel Uncensored.

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Knesset Committee Pushes Off Debate on Proposal to Limit Investigations of Sitting PM

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

All pending legislation have been pushed off for a week after the coalition partners couldn't agree on MK Dudi Amsalem’s initiative.

Government / Business and Economy

Unemployment Hits New Lows

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“I wouldn't like to see a reality where a husband or wife gets up in the morning and they don’t have a job to go to," Kahlon said.

Featured / Politics / Government / Elections / The Knesset

Poll: Likud Still Leading, Labor Weaker

By JNi.Media

The Joint Arab List would retain its power with 13 seats, followed by Habayit Hayehudi which would rise from 8 to 12 seats.

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.'

Featured / Global / Government / Business and Economy

eBay Launches Israeli Tax Calculator, Wants Better Duty Exemptions for Online Shopping

By JNi.Media

The products Israelis are most attracted to online are smartphones, then wristwatches, running shoes and laptops.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Government / Turkey / Health and Medicine

Liberman Objects to Treating Syrian Chemical Attack Victims in Israel

By JNi.Media

Minister Israel Katz's proposal to transfer casualties from Idlib to hospitals in is opposed by the defense establishment, because it would requires cooperation with Turkey.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics

Liberman: If Syria Shoots at our Planes Again We'll Destroy Its Anti-Aircraft Defenses

By JNi.Media

As to the Russian presence in Syria, Liberman said the last thing Israel wants is tension with Russia.

Featured / Politics / Government / China

Coalition Crisis Brewing on Eve of Netanyahu China Trip

By JNi.Media

On paper, Herzog could cobble a new government with relative ease, should such a vote of no-confidence succeed and the Netanyahu coalition government be toppled – even without new elections.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Income Tax Employees' 'Italian Strike' Threatening Israeli Economy

By JNi.Media

As of Sunday morning there are no assessment hearings, and for several weeks no taxation abroad is being certified, no tax withholding on transactions in Israel, and 7,000 real estate transactions are delayed.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Knesset Approves Arrangements Act in Preliminary Vote 58 - 50

By JNi.Media

Both Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) and Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud) warned that the bill would be suspended should it meet resistance from the Supreme Court.

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.

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

New Poll Sees Israeli Left Collapsing, Purely Rightwing Coalition Government

By JNi.Media

The rightwing parties could possibly combine their numbers to boycott either Kahlon or Lapid, or both, from the future coalition government.

Government / News Briefs

Finance and Justice Ministries to Crack Down on Gambling

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Kahlon said, "As I am finance minister, there will be no casinos in Israel."

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Media

Israeli Government in Cantankerous Rancor over New Broadcasting Authority

By JNi.Media

One of the most celebrated quotes from Sunday's debate was from Likud Minister Miri Regev who reportedly cried out: "What's the point in having a corporation if we don't control it?"

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.

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."

IDF & Security / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Kulanu's Leftwing Trend Continues: Housing Minister Supports Settlements Freeze

By JNi.Media

Kulanu's vagaries in the coming weeks should be viewed in the context of a party on its way to extinction attempting to soar once more by flapping its arms with great vigor.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religious & Secular in Israel

New Defense Minister Facing Challenges Within and Without

By JNi.Media

On Friday morning, a Kulanu politician, Environment Minister Avi Gabbay, announced his resignation on account of the Lieberman appointment.

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Analysis: Bennett Threatening to Walk If Bibi Gives Shaked's Justice Portfolio to Bougie

By JNi.Media

The dynamo working tirelessly to promote a Likud-Labor coalition has been Finance Minister Kahlon, who is facing a serious challenge from his permanent foe Yair Lapid.

Government / News Briefs / Holocaust

Kahlon: Half-Billion Shekels to Go to Holocaust Survivors and Elderly

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The new plans will benefit 60,000 survivors living below the poverty line.

Photo of the Day

Selling the Chometz

By Photo of the Day

Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (R), Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (2L), and Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon sell the Chametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel to Arab Israeli Mr. Jaber (L) before the upcoming Passover holiday, April 21, 2016.

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Knesset Approves Budget in 1st Voting Round as Shas Threatens to Pull Support

By JNi.Media

Deri threatened that should the issue of zero VAT on essential products not be resolved by the following voting round, his party, Shas, would oppose the budget.

Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Understand Israeli Elections - Here's a Primer, Part 1

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.

Israel / Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Likud Beats Labor-Livni as Lieberman Sinks in New Polls

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Election Tidbits: Michael Oren, Rami Levi, Jewish Home and Shas

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.

News Briefs / The Knesset

Mobile Phone Rate-Buster Kachlon to Form New Party

By Jewish Press News Desk

Moshe Kachlon, the former Likud minister who busted the mobile phone oligarchy in Israel, announced on Sunday he is forming a new party to run in the next scheduled elections in 2017, assuming the current coalition holds together that long. Kachlon resisted appeals from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to run again in the previous elections […]

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VI

By Ruchama Feuerman

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