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A United Airlines flight lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, March 31, 2025 (Yossi Aloni/ FLASH90)
September 2, 2026, 10:10 am
US airlines bring competition back to NYC route, but fares won’t begin descent for months
Delta and United returning after Iran war hiatus, as Israir set to debut New York service, but prices will stay elevated until November, experts say, and may remain turbulent as long as war fears persist
By Sharon Wrobel
Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on May 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 6, 2025, 8:54 am
Au revoir western Europe: As Houthi attacks spike airfares, Israelis adjust summer plans
As many foreign carriers halt their flights to Tel Aviv, Israelis forgo popular but expensive cities in western Europe for breaks in nearby Greece, Cyprus, and Balkan countries
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. A grocery shopper in the northern town of Katzrin, in the Golan Heights, on July 1, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
February 20, 2025, 7:42 pm
Israel launches campaign to fine retail chains failing to display prices on products
Economy minister steps up enforcement of law mandating that supermarkets and retail chains show costs of items; calls on consumers to report retailers
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Bread for sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2024, 9:42 am
Food and beverage prices in Israel are 52% higher than OECD average
Data shows consumer prices in Israel second only to South Korea among 38 developed countries; telecom prices are the only bright spot, at 30% cheaper than average
By ToI Staff
Arnon Bar-David, then a candidate in the elections for the Histadrut, arrives to vote at a polling station, during the Histadrut elections in Tel Aviv, May 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sasoni/Flash90)
July 28, 2022, 4:33 pm
Histadrut announces protests, information campaign to fight rising cost of living
Labor federation will send operatives to shopping centers to guide consumers to cheaper products; billboards go up spreading message; ‘We’re only just starting,’ group’s chief says
By Tobias Siegal
Finance Minister and Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, on January 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 31, 2022, 4:57 pm
Liberman slams ‘cynical’ food price rises, defends hike in fuel and electricity cost
Finance minister claims Israel experiencing ‘mildest price rise in the world’; Bennett, Lapid, Liberman said set to discuss handouts to businesses
By ToI Staff
People shop at a supermarket branch in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 30, 2022, 9:13 pm
Finance, economy ministries warn major food companies against price hikes
Ministries threaten to ‘take the required steps to secure a fair, competitive economy,’ in letters to Osem, Strauss and 5 other food firms
By Ricky Ben-David
'Yellow vest' protests reach Israel with hundreds marching against the rising cost of living in central Tel Aviv on December 14, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 14, 2018, 8:07 pm
‘Yellow vest’ protests reach Israel as hundreds demonstrate in Tel Aviv
Inspired by French movement, activists blame government for rising cost of living; block a central junction; at least 10 arrested after confrontations with police
By Michael Bachner
A balcony in Jerusalem, March 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
January 1, 2013, 6:01 pm
New year kicks off with price rises
Water and income tax go up, with the cost of electricity expected to follow after elections; Livni says Netanyahu is ‘spitting in the face of the public’
By Stuart Winer
The vehicle involved in Sunday's hit-and-run in which Lior Farhi was killed. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
September 10, 2012, 2:30 pm
Car trouble
From fatal crashes to hit and runs and problems ramming security checkpoints, today’s papers prove it might just be better to take the helicopter
By Joshua Davidovich
White bread in a shopping cart. hope they took out a loan for all that. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
August 14, 2012, 3:03 pm
This is the affliction of our bread
From the yeast comes great evil and other bread price rise-related puns
By Joshua Davidovich
Karin Kloosterman
August 6, 2012, 1:23 pm
Karin Kloosterman
Pick your protests
I’m writing this from Paris, France, where I am shocked and at the same time thrilled to find out how ‘cheap’ things are here compared to Israel
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