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Friday, March 14, 2025
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Friday, March 14, 2025
Consumer Price Index unchanged in February, inflation trends down
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Illustrative: BIG Fashion Glilot shopping and entertainment complex near Herzliya on March 3, 2025. (Sharon Wrobel/The Times of Israel)
The Consumer Price Index remained unchanged in February, despite expectations of a rise of 0.2%-0.3%, data by the Central Bureau of Statistics shows.
Year-on-year inflation moved down from 3.8% to 3.4%.
At the same time, prices did rise in some sectors, including a 10.5% rise in the cost of fresh fruit, a 0.7% rise in communications costs and a 0.8% rise in entertainment costs. Food (in general) and rent both rose by 0.3%.
One significant rise was in housing costs, with home buyers paying 7.7% more on average in December-January compared to the same period in 2023-2024.
Some costs that went down included fresh vegetables (7.1%) and clothing (3%).
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