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Illustrative: Students study at a yeshiva in Jerusalem, September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 11, 2022, 7:38 pm
Likud, religious allies said to agree on near-doubling stipends for yeshiva students
Report says likely new coalition to raise monthly handouts to $380, slightly more than soldiers in non-combat units receive, costing taxpayers an additional $439 million a year
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, listens to then-Foreign Minister Israel Katz during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 27, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)
August 4, 2020, 8:45 am
800,000 Israeli adults begin to receive government coronavirus handouts
After payments for parents arrived this week, most other adults to receive NIS 750 while those living on pensions and allowances to get double sum
By ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-transportation minister Israel Katz attend the inauguration ceremony for a new train station in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, September 17, 2018. (Flash90)
August 2, 2020, 9:13 am
Over a million Israelis start receiving government coronavirus handouts
Payments for parents arrive first in controversial NIS 6.5b stimulus plan, to be followed by transfers to the elderly and, eventually, the rest of the population
By ToI Staff
The Knesset plenum during a vote on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coronavirus stimulus package on July 29, 2020. (Screenshot)
July 29, 2020, 5:44 pm
Knesset approves amended version of Netanyahu’s NIS 6.5b handouts plan
Some eligible Israelis could receive cash as soon as Sunday; high wage earners excluded while some needier Israelis, bigger families, allocated larger sums
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and their children take part in a protest on May 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 28, 2020, 7:04 pm
Stimulus cash boosted for big families after ultra-Orthodox, Arab pressure
Government agrees to payouts for every child, increases funds for newly released soldiers; proposal now expected to be brought for final Knesset votes
By ToI Staff
MK Ahmad Tibi, right, with United Torah Judaism's MK Moshe Gafni, left, at a meeting of the Knesset opposition, March 9, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 28, 2020, 1:31 pm
Stimulus cash likely to benefit big families after ultra-Orthodox, Arab pressure
Government agrees to payouts for every child; discussions ongoing in Knesset Finance Committee after bill passes first vote
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) discusses his virus stimulus package with Israel Tax Authority Director Aran Yaakov at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 15, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
July 27, 2020, 10:42 pm
Knesset advances bill to give stimulus checks to most Israelis
Legislation clears first reading 80-0, sending it to Finance Committee for further mark-up before 2nd and 3rd votes in plenum
By ToI Staff
People wearing face masks due to the coronavirus outbreak shop for groceries at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on July 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 26, 2020, 4:32 pm
Cabinet approves tweaked plan giving virus stimulus handouts to most citizens
Netanyahu says NIS 6.5 billion plan will help ‘move the wheels of the economy in order to put people back to work’
By ToI Staff
Self-employed Israelis protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, calling for financial support from the Israeli government in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, on July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 20, 2020, 2:32 pm
Big earners won’t get handouts as Netanyahu’s NIS 6b plan tweaked amid criticism
Private citizens making over NIS 640,000 a year and public sector workers making NIS 30,000 a month no longer eligible for stipend
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during a joint press conference with the EU foreign policy chief, at the European Council in Brussels on December 11, 2017. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
January 10, 2018, 8:42 pm
PM calls on Abbas to condemn West Bank shooting, end terrorist stipends
Netanyahu urges European foreign ministers to push the PA to cease paying salaries to jailed Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second from left, waves with released Palestinian prisoners coming from Israeli jails during celebrations at Abbas's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, October 30, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
January 9, 2018, 12:09 pm
Defense Ministry drafts bill to cut PA funds over terrorist stipends
Proposal would deduct cash payouts to relatives of Palestinian prisoners and their families from Israeli tax revenues heading to Ramallah
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative image of disabled, handicapped and activists attend a protest calling for better health care, on a main road outside the town of Yekum, causing major traffic jams, August 14, 2017. (Flash90)
September 12, 2017, 1:20 pm
Protesters for disability rights again block highways near Tel Aviv
Activists threaten to continue to disrupt traffic until the government agrees to find ‘a proper and dignified solution’ for their plight
By ToI Staff
Disabled activists block Ibn Gvirol street in Tel Aviv as part of a protest calling for an increase in government stipends, August 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 4, 2017, 4:30 pm
Protesters for disability rights block 2 highways at rush hour
Routes 2 and 4 closed by activists continuing campaign for increase to match disability payments to minimum wage
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Disabled protesters demonstrate on a main road outside Kibbutz Yakum in central Israel on August 14, 2017. (Flash90)
August 24, 2017, 11:57 am
Disabled protesters block highway during morning rush hour
Demonstration comes hours before court deadline for government to respond to petition on raising disability benefits
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Disabled activists attend a protest calling for better health care in Tel Aviv on June 13, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 9, 2017, 11:00 am
Disabled protesters block main highway in wildcat protest
Demonstrators say new plan to increase disability stipends falls short of their demands for minimum wage equivalent
By ToI Staff
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