March 30, 2014
4:07 am

An illustrative photo of a vote in the Knesset. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

A year on, team of rivals rules Netanyahu’s coalition

Likud party hardly advanced any government initiatives while other factions pushed actions forward

By Ben Sales

March 26, 2014
4:32 pm

Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaks at a conference regarding future housing in Israel, March 26, 2014 (Photo credit: Flash90)

Lapid resolute on housing plan: ‘Let me do my work’

Finance minister defends initiative to drop VAT on first homes, calls his critics ‘interested parties’

By Itamar Sharon

March 24, 2014
7:19 pm

A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (photo credit: Uri Lenz / Flash90)

Cabinet okays tax-free homes for first-time buyers

Tax breaks, ‘target prices’ approved in effort to reduce housing costs for young families; Bank of Israel governor unimpressed

By Haviv Rettig Gur

March 24, 2014
3:07 pm

A construction site in the Gilo neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, August 13, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

My hero, the housing crisis solution

A Knesset panel readies to debate two plans to lower home prices, which means 17 zillion opinions on which idea is best

By Joshua Davidovich

March 20, 2014
8:49 am

Benjamin Netanyahu's government lauds its first year's accomplishments in animated video (screen capture: YouTube)

Animation lauds coalition’s 1st year

Netanyahu releases video focusing on domestic achievements

By Ben Sales

March 19, 2014
8:28 pm

Dr. Michael Sarel (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Top treasury economist quits over tax-free home plan

Economics director says exemption for young couples is populist, may actually lead to increase in prices

By Itamar Sharon

March 19, 2014
1:33 pm

IDF soldiers carry a comrade injured in a blast on the Golan Heights to a waiting helicopter on March 18, 2014 (photo credit:AFP/Jalaa Marey)

Full frontal confrontation

The latest attack along the northern border means Israel needs to get its act in gear or expect things to get much worse, analysts write

By Joshua Davidovich

March 18, 2014
3:32 pm

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (photo credit:Flash90)

Home and guardian

Finance minister to give tax breaks to young apartment buyers, defense minister says Israel must plan to act alone against Iran

By Ilan Ben Zion

March 18, 2014
2:36 pm

Finance Minister Yair Lapid smiles during the Knesset debate on the 2013-2014 state budget, on July 29, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

New plan would give first-time buyers tax-free homes

Proposal to ease housing crisis would eliminate 18% VAT for qualified apartment purchasers

By Gavriel Fiske

March 12, 2014
2:55 pm

Ultra-Orthodox protesters and police outside a prison where a draft dodger was held earlier this year. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yeshuv/Flash 90)

After draft law passes, sides draw battle lines

Backers of measure to force ultra-Orthodox into military say work has just begun, but opposing groups slam law, petition court to overturn it

By Lazar Berman

March 11, 2014
9:11 pm

A man walks outside a building in the Arab town of Sakhnin, Northern Israel, January 03, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

Finance Ministry mulls first Arabic university in Sakhnin

From the web Lapid says government is advancing plans to construct academic facility in northern city, Israel Hayom reports

March 11, 2014
7:15 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset as it votes on the Governance Bill, March 11, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Governance Bill is a game-changer for Israeli politics

Behind the scenes and into the weeds of Tuesday’s passage of the most dramatic electoral reform in decades

By Haviv Rettig Gur

March 6, 2014
2:12 pm

Minister Home Front Defense and of Communications Gilad Erdan. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Israel’s TV tax to end in 2015

Communications minister starts process of shuttering public TV and radio authority, establishing substitute

By Aron Dónzis

March 3, 2014
6:05 pm

Housing and Construction Minister and Jewish Home parliament member Uri Ariel (C) with Yesha (Jewish settler organization) leader Ze'ev Chever (Zambish), head of the Amanah settlement organization, at a press conference promoting new housing units to be built in the Jewish settlement of Tel Tzion, near Jerusalem, on August 13, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Settlement construction more than doubled in 2013

Opposition blasts Netanyahu as new data emerges ahead of prime minister’s meeting with Obama

By Elhanan Miller and Ilan Ben Zion

March 2, 2014
11:20 pm

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks with soldiers during a visit at the IDF Netzah Yehuda Battalion near Jenin on Sunday, March 2, 2014 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

IDF chief cites Holocaust to justify Haredi service

Benny Gantz reportedly tells ultra-Orthodox soldiers that the IDF doesn’t differentiate between Jews — just like the Nazis

By Marissa Newman

Topic: Yair Lapid