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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Shaul Meridor

Illustrative: View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 30, 2023, 1:18 pm
50 ex-ministry heads, treasury chiefs join financial warnings over judicial overhaul
Former senior officials, many of whom worked under Netanyahu for years, say reforms could cause ‘long-term’ damage to economy
By Tobias Siegal
Finance Minister Israel Katz holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on July 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 20, 2020, 8:50 am
Troubled coalition to okay new accountant general after reprimand from AG
Mandelblit tells finance minister: ‘Impermissible to leave the post unmanned’ amid risk of destabilizing the economy
By ToI Staff
Ofer Shelah (Flash90)
September 8, 2020, 3:27 am
Coalition MKs block state comptroller investigation into budget ‘farce’
Knesset State Audit Committee discusses finance ministry’s handling of budget process, resignation of former budget chief amid allegations of political interference
By ToI Staff
Budget director Shaul Meridor attends a press conference with at the Finance Ministry office in Jerusalem, September 23, 2019. (Flash90)
September 2, 2020, 2:51 am
Ex-budgets chief claims finance minister fomenting ‘atmosphere of terror’
Israel Katz refusing to allow staffers to begin drafting a state budget to avert end-of-year elections, Shaul Meridor charges in first interview since explosive resignation
By ToI Staff
Shaul Meridor, head of the Finance Ministry's budget department, speaks at the Maariv newspaper conference in Herzliya on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 30, 2020, 11:03 pm
Treasury budget chief quits, lashes government for ‘shattering red lines’
Shaul Meridor decries decision-making process influenced by ‘narrow interests,’ disregarding decades of budgetary rules; Finance Minister Katz accuses him of ‘political interests’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry, in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)
July 19, 2020, 4:34 pm
How Netanyahu lost focus, and his coalition lost control, in fight against COVID
PM has always sought to sideline competing ministers and make all the decisions himself; that strategy served him well in the first wave of the virus, but then he got distracted
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Keren Terner Eyal, then-director general of the Transportation Ministry, attends a hearing at the Knesset, on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 18, 2020, 7:48 pm
Treasury chief laments ‘violent discourse’ as Netanyahu, allies step up attacks
Finance Ministry’s director pushes back against claims bureaucrats holding up aid; minister Katz said to suspend funds for needy to prevent them from reaching refugee groups
By ToI Staff
Shaul Meridor, head of the Finance Ministry's budget department, speaks at the Maariv newspaper conference in Herzliya on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 17, 2020, 1:34 pm
Netanyahu lashes out at Treasury official who opposes cash for all stimulus plan
After Likud MK accuses Shaul Meridor of ‘torpedoing’ PM’s decisions, premier says ‘it’s inconceivable that bureaucrats… are working to thwart’ his latest financial aid proposal
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
June 21, 2020, 11:22 am
Seeking to split 2-year budget, Netanyahu must first convince Gantz it’s no trap
Amid economic chaos and no reliable forecasts, treasury insists planning 2 years ahead futile; but ensuing political instability could keep Blue and White head from PM’s office
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Finance Ministry budgets director Shaul Meridor attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on December 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 31, 2018, 4:03 pm
To rein in deficit, taxes may need to rise, spending to drop – budget chief
Central Bureau of Statistics releases preliminary estimates for GDP growth of 3.2% in 2018, lower than expected; 2017 saw a growth of 3.5%
By Shoshanna Solomon
In this July 12, 2018 photo, garbage is strew along an embankment in East Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
July 20, 2018, 5:11 pm
Israel’s East Jerusalem development plan gets cool reception from Arab residents
Government to invest NIS 2 billion in capital’s eastern sector to improve quality of life and economy, but residents wary Israeli just wants to cement control
By Tia Goldenberg
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
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