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 THE WRITER is flanked (from left) by Sharon Vanek of the California-Israel Chamber of Commerce, David Yaari, then-of the Texas Association of Business, Sima Amir of the Georgia Department of Commerce, and Michael Calvert of the US Commercial Service, as they attend the US-Israel Business Summit.

What is Israel’s economic tipping point?

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Fitch Rating logo seen in background.

Israel's 2025 budget delays a red flag to investors and Israelis

 New Israeli Shekel banknotes and coins, illustrative. November 9, 2021

S&P drops Israel's credit rating, citing geopolitical risk after Iran attack

Real estate emerges from the hurricane

By ZSOLT KOHALMI
 The Bank of Israel building is seen in Jerusalem June 16, 2020. Picture taken June 16, 2020.

Israel's interest rate remains unchanged at 4.5%, Bank of Israel says

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024.

Smotrich calls on budget dep. head to resign, accuses him of failing to comply with his policies

 An El Al plane in Ben Gurion Airport.

El Al sets four fixed-price destinations to keep skies open amid airline cancelations

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

Your Taxes: Withdrawals from savings

By LEON HARRIS
  New Israeli Shekel banknotes and coins are seen in this picture illustration taken November 9, 2021.

Israel's 2024 deficit to reach 8% even without full-scale war in North - Taub Center

AN EMPLOYEE of Eshet-Eilon, manufacturers of agricultural sorting machinery for export, works under daily missile attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon, on Kibbutz Eilon, Western Galilee, earlier this year.

We must boost the resilient Israeli industry in border regions

By YEHUDA HADAD
 Manuel Trajtenberg attends the international INSS conference in Tel Aviv on April 11, 2022.

Former INSS head: Investors in Israel need to see plan for a day after the war

 The Finance Ministry offices are seen on May 14, 2023

CBS: Real average wages up 4.4% from last year, down from March

Prof. Yaron Zelekha and Tamar Uriel Beeri

Israel’s economy was struggling long before October 7, expert says

 Israeli police work at the area where a rocket landed in Kiryat Shmona, February 13, 2024

Brace for impact: As Hezbollah escalates in North, we must prepare for emergency

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

Your Taxes: The end of cost plus in Israel?

By LEON HARRIS
 Bezalel Smotrich

Israel's 2025 budget: Smotrich announces changes to how budget built, work to start this week

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked traffic and the light rail  in Jerusalem demonstrating against a Haredi draft into the IDF. February 26, 2024.

Leading Israeli economists: Government policy regarding haredim is an existential threat to Israel

 People shop for groceries at the Shufersal Deal supermarket in Katsrin, Golan Heights, on February 9, 2024.

Israel's GDP grows 14.1% in first quarter of 2024