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Topic: Finance Ministry

May 14, 2013
6:18 am

From left, Moshe Ya'alon, Yair Lapid, and Tzipi Livni at the Cabinet meeting Monday. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Cabinet passes austerity budget by wide margin

Ministers vote for nearly across-the-board ministry funding cuts, VAT and income tax rises; tourist exemption from VAT preserved

May 14, 2013
3:29 am

An ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Haredi schools to teach core subjects in exchange for funding

Yesh Atid calls deal with Shas historic; education minister says ultra-Orthodox state school network in offing

By Joshua Davidovich

May 12, 2013
9:16 pm

A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Finance ministry buries grave tax rumor

Families of the deceased will not foot the bill after re-introduction of property fees on cemeteries, Treasury says

By Stuart Winer

May 12, 2013
3:21 pm

Austerity measures to follow taxpayers to the grave

Ministers to vote on canceling tax exemptions for private burial plots

By Asher Zeiger

May 12, 2013
12:37 pm

Secular and ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem stand side by side at a protest in Jerusalem against the impending budget cuts proposed by Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Saturday. (photo credit: Yifa Yaakov/The Times of Israel)

Guns or butter

Pictures of thousands marching in Tel Aviv dominate front pages, but journalists are more concerned with the coming fight over Defense Ministry cuts

By Joshua Davidovich

May 9, 2013
2:21 pm

Thousands of social protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011. (photo credit: Gili Yaarir/Flash90)

Social protesters rev up over Lapid’s cuts

Demonstrations Thursday and Saturday; Bennett supports finance minister, says unpopular tax hikes a necessity

By Asher Zeiger

May 8, 2013
4:55 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter at the premier's Tel Aviv office on Thursday. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Battling for budgets

Lapid passes austerity measures that trouble the press, but the prime minister is reportedly not behind him 100%

By Ilan Ben Zion

May 7, 2013
12:31 pm

One shekel coins (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Budget draft includes tax hikes, deep slashes

‘Stephen King, you have competition,’ Meretz head announces, recommending that Treasury proposal not be read before bedtime

By Gavriel Fiske

May 2, 2013
11:54 pm

Shekel notes (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90)

S&P drops Israel’s credit rating after Lapid suggests raising deficit

Finance minister takes Netanyahu and Fischer by surprise as he declares his new plan for reducing the country’s overdraft

By Times of Israel staff

May 2, 2013
6:39 pm

Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition lauds Lapid for scaling back on budget cuts

Labor leader calls for incentives, not austerity measures, while Meretz head blames PM’s tax cuts for looming reductions in social services

By Michal Shmulovich and Joshua Davidovich

May 2, 2013
3:12 am

Yair Lapid (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid plans to halve proposed budget cuts, raise deficit

Move would put NIS 6.5 billion back into coffers, but give country record deficit ceiling of 4.9 percent

By Joshua Davidovich

April 24, 2013
2:45 am

Finance Minister Yair Lapid (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance minister: This is the war of the working person

Yair Lapid defends budget cuts, promising that the situation of working Israelis will change within three years

By Times of Israel staff

April 23, 2013
9:36 am

Thousands stand in line at the departure terminal at Ben-Gurion International Airport on April 20, 2013, the day before a strike was called by Israeli airlines. (photo credit: Yossi Zaliger/Flash90)

Flights resume after two-day strike concluded

Major delays reported at Ben Gurion, as travelers stranded since Sunday converge on airport

By Times of Israel staff

April 22, 2013
7:42 pm

Airlines call end to strike after two-day stoppage

State to increase spending on airline security, companies to institute efficiency measures

By Times of Israel staff

April 20, 2013
8:04 pm

Members of the joint Finance Ministry-SwiftNess steering committee celebrating the completion of the SwiftNess website. Seated (left to right): Effi Kotek, President Ness Israel; Professor Oded Sarig; Lee Dagan; Victor Weiss, Finance Ministry (photo credit: Courtesy Ness Technologies)

Online service aims to clean up Israel’s pension mess

Tens of billions of retiree fund shekels are going unclaimed, as workers have lost track of their retirement accounts. A new system could fix that

By David Shamah

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Finance Ministry

Cabinet passes austerity budget by wide margin

Ministers vote for nearly across-the-board ministry funding cuts, VAT and income tax rises; tourist exemption from VAT preserved

Haredi schools to teach core subjects in exchange for funding

Yesh Atid calls deal with Shas historic; education minister says ultra-Orthodox state school network in offing

Finance ministry buries grave tax rumor

Families of the deceased will not foot the bill after re-introduction of property fees on cemeteries, Treasury says

Austerity measures to follow taxpayers to the grave

Ministers to vote on canceling tax exemptions for private burial plots

Guns or butter

Pictures of thousands marching in Tel Aviv dominate front pages, but journalists are more concerned with the coming fight over Defense Ministry cuts

Social protesters rev up over Lapid’s cuts

Demonstrations Thursday and Saturday; Bennett supports finance minister, says unpopular tax hikes a necessity

Battling for budgets

Lapid passes austerity measures that trouble the press, but the prime minister is reportedly not behind him 100%

Budget draft includes tax hikes, deep slashes

‘Stephen King, you have competition,’ Meretz head announces, recommending that Treasury proposal not be read before bedtime

S&P drops Israel’s credit rating after Lapid suggests raising deficit

Finance minister takes Netanyahu and Fischer by surprise as he declares his new plan for reducing the country’s overdraft

Opposition lauds Lapid for scaling back on budget cuts

Labor leader calls for incentives, not austerity measures, while Meretz head blames PM’s tax cuts for looming reductions in social services

Lapid plans to halve proposed budget cuts, raise deficit

Move would put NIS 6.5 billion back into coffers, but give country record deficit ceiling of 4.9 percent

Finance minister: This is the war of the working person

Yair Lapid defends budget cuts, promising that the situation of working Israelis will change within three years

Flights resume after two-day strike concluded

Major delays reported at Ben Gurion, as travelers stranded since Sunday converge on airport

Airlines call end to strike after two-day stoppage

State to increase spending on airline security, companies to institute efficiency measures

Online service aims to clean up Israel’s pension mess

Tens of billions of retiree fund shekels are going unclaimed, as workers have lost track of their retirement accounts. A new system could fix that

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