Finance Ministry

MK Yehuda Glick speaks during a plenum session at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 12, 2018, 1:16 am

MK vows to go on hunger strike until tax on loose tobacco is raised

Yehuda Glick says Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon continually ignores recommendations to bring tobacco tax in line with tax on cigarettes

By TOI staff

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (L) meeting in his Jerusalem office with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on May 14, 2018. (Finance Ministry)

May 14, 2018, 11:56 pm

Israeli, US finance chiefs meet, agree to keep coordinating on Iran sanctions

Kahlon hosts Mnuchin in Jerusalem before new US Embassy dedication for discussion of terror funds, joint projects, tax issues

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian laborers work at the construction site of a new housing project in the Israeli settlement of Ariel near the West Bank city of Nablus on January 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

March 20, 2018, 11:36 pm

Strike at Defense Ministry body threatens to freeze settlement approvals

Civil Administration labor action also leaves thousands of Palestinians without entry permits, halts enforcement against illegal building in West Bank

By Jacob Magid

The front gate of IMI Systems headquarters. (Wikipedia/CC BY)

March 11, 2018, 4:53 pm

Elbit buys state-owned arms maker IMI for NIS 1.8 billion

Defense contractor sold to free up space for residential housing in high-demand area, send jobs to the Negev, government says

By TOI staff

Logos of US multinational technology company Google, on December 28, 2016, in Vertou, western France. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

February 25, 2018, 4:02 pm

Israel, Google eye greater productivity at low-tech manufacturing plants

NIS 3 million program aims to help close the productivity gap with other developed nations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (R) are seen ahead of a Knesset vote on the 2019 state budget on February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 14, 2018, 12:38 am

With all eyes on Netanyahu, Knesset quietly passes first reading of budget

Kahlon says passing fifth budget in 5 years would be 'unprecedented,' signal the 'stability and steadfastness' of Israel's economy

By TOI staff

A National Insurance Institute building (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

February 7, 2018, 3:59 pm

Government is defrauding the public of national insurance funds, official says

Head of National Insurance Institute's Audit Committee says the state helped itself to NIS 200 billion of the NII's reserves, and is therefore tightening restrictions on benefits

By Shoshanna Solomon

Disabled, handicapped and other activists march in central Jerusalem, as they protest for better health care and allowances, on January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 29, 2018, 12:46 pm

PM’s office says agreement reached on disability benefits bill

Legislation allocating an additional NIS 4.2 billion in allowances can now move forward in Knesset, with dispute between ministries solved

By Stuart Winer

US President Donald Trump holds up a copy of legislation before signing the tax reform bill into law in the Oval Office December 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

January 15, 2018, 2:12 pm

Finance Ministry says US tax reform likely to have impact on Israel

Though it's too early to estimate the total effect, its ramifications on issues like startup incentives and IP should be assessed, treasury says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A pro Israel rally in Atlanta on July 25, 2014 (AP Photo/Ron Harris)

January 12, 2018, 5:54 pm

Israel said planning to close consulate in Atlanta, 6 other missions amid cuts

Embassies in Ireland, Belarus, Eritrea, Dominican Republic, consulate in Bengaluru, and embassy in either Latvia or Lithuania reportedly on chopping block

By TOI staff and JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Conference of Israeli ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on January 3, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 12, 2018, 12:55 pm

In cost-cutting measure, Foreign Ministry to close 7 missions over three years

But ministry backtracks on plans to fire workers; budget agreement will see injection of some NIS 175 million to boost programs in 100 diplomatic postings

By TOI staff

Foreign Ministry workers protest outside the ministry's offices in Jerusalem on March 24, 2014. The sign reads 'Here there is a strike.' (Meital Cohen/Flash90)

January 10, 2018, 9:43 am

Officials warn looming Foreign Ministry cuts will harm Israel’s image overseas

Diplomats say slashes a 'patently political move'; ambassador: Treasury officials must have been 'smoking cannabis when they wrote this crazy proposal'

By Sue Surkes

Israeli diplomats protest in Tel Aviv holding a sign reading 'Lost diplomacy = an isolated Israel,' July 3, 2103 (Flash90/Roni Schutzer)

January 8, 2018, 1:50 pm

Israeli missions overseas, immigrants, tourists targeted for 2019 budget cuts

Deputy foreign minister calls move to slash ministry workforce 'a targeted assassination' of Israel's diplomacy, vows to block move

By Sue Surkes

Shoppers walk past piles of garbage left by striking city workers, at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, on January 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 7, 2018, 3:00 pm

Jerusalem workers strike called off as layoffs rescinded

Officials in municipality and ministries of finance and interior agree to 45-day grace period for talks on ways to make up capital's chronic budget shortfalls

By TOI staff

January 7, 2018, 12:30 pm

Jerusalem city workers go on open-ended strike over budget fight, layoffs

Garbage piling up as municipal employees object to firing of 2,150 workers amid battle between mayor and Finance Ministry

By TOI staff