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Israeli Government Budget

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, last week.

Welfare, wage, and ministry cuts: Treasury unveils plan for 2025 budget

 Strategic AI investment in Israel could create 50,000-100,000 jobs and add $100-$200 billion to GDP within five years, mirroring trends in other countries.

Here's why now is the most critical and opportune time to invest in Israeli AI tech

By Shlomo Mirvis
Inside the Knesset building.

NIS 727 billion budget expansion passes in Knesset as Israel-Hamas War continues

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the the The 10th Katif Conference for National Responsibility. August 5, 2024.

Smotrich advances extra-budgetary war funds despite Finance min professional warning

 Kiryat Shmona evacuees

Government announces extension of evacuations from North, South

 Bezalel Smotrich

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

 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023.

Netanyahu, Smotrich blame each other for price hikes

 MK Avigdor Liberman speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 6, 2024.

'Dermer promised the Saudis a Palestinian state': Liberman hits back at government

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on March 13, 2024

Israel's Knesset passes national budget as Netanyahu reaches last-minute deal

 Head of the Finance committee MK Moshe Gafni speaks during a discussion on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 12, 2024.

Israel's Knesset begins marathon debate on new 2024 budget

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the Tashlikh ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

Transportation Min. to pay hundreds of thousands to provide buses to ultra-Orthodox wedding

 CABINET MINISTERS in the ‘government of change’ take their seats in the Knesset plenum upon their inauguration, June 2021. ‘This year – in light of the rickety political reality we are living in – I would add wishes for political stability,’ says the writer.

Unity government must include friends and rivals - editorial

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the cabinet meeting. January 15, 2024.

Israeli cabinet approves controversial wartime budget for 2024

 A street vendor sells bagels amid a crowd of protesters demonstrating against judicial reform in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023.

'Israel needs NIS 171 billion to match Western standards'

By Liat Ron/Walla
 DR. ELIAD SHRAGA, founder and chairman of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, speaks at a press conference against the proposed changes to the legal system, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem.

Movement for Quality of Gov't urges AG to ban coalition funds

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich and Economy Minister Nir Barkat attend a meeting in September.

Revised 2023 State Budget approved, to be reviewed in coming days

By ZACHY HENNESSEY , Liat Ron/Walla
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin are seen at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on July 9, 2023.

Likud holds first faction meeting in months ahead of budget vote

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion on the state budget, at the Knesset Finance Committee, in July. The state budget for 2024 and the next few years must be fundamentally redrafted, say the writers.

Direct coalition funds to the war effort, now - editorial