Bucking Israel’s far right, several large American Jewish groups say they oppose resettling Gaza
4 days ago: …and as far-right Israeli government ministers have called for resettling the Palestinian enclave. Finance Minister …and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have also repeatedly called for Israel to encourage…
Trump names former Abraham Accords negotiator as top hostages official
05.12 2024: International Development Finance Corporation; Jared Kushner; David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel; and Avi Berkowitz, the Trump administration Middle East envoy, pose in front of the U.…
Israeli Security Cabinet approves truce with Lebanon
27.11 2024: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a senior member of the Security Cabinet, informed Netanyahu of his four demands for supporting the agreement, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported. The Religious Zionism leader reportedly…
Trump taps Jewish financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
19.11 2024: …and is the CEO of finance firm Cantor Fitzgerald. He raised campaign funds for Trump and has taken on a prominent role on the president-elect’s team in recent months, speaking for Trump in the media,…
Biden administration sanctions Israeli settler group, in move that Trump could reverse
18.11 2024: But it has so far resisted pressure to target two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Last month Trump has reportedly told the Israeli prime minister…
Trump named Mike Huckabee ambassador to Israel. Is that a sign of the second coming of annexation?
14.11 2024: …inspiring choice.” Sandra Parker, who chairs CUFI’s campaign finance arm, said Huckabee “believes in Israel’s right to self-determination and defense, not because it is politically convenient to do so but because these are immutable…
Close to 90 congressional Democrats urge Biden to sanction Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
14.11 2024: House of Representatives and in the Senate, named Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as “driving policies that promote settler violence, weaken the Palestinian Authority,…
Trump taps Mike Huckabee, evangelical favorite, to be ambassador to Israel
12.11 2024: …far-right Israeli finance minister whose portfolio includes West Bank settlements, has A pastor by training who frequently leads evangelical Christian tours of the country, Huckabee once described his relationship to the country as…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Dr. Yechiel Leiter as Israel’s next United States Ambassador
11.11 2024: Leiter served as Netanyahu’s chief of staff at the Finance Ministry and various other political and advisory positions in the past, is an Orthodox rabbi and Judaic studies scholar. Born in Scranton in 1959,…
Yechiel Leiter, American-Israeli former settler leader who lost a son in Gaza, to serve as next Israeli ambassador to US
08.11 2024: Leiter was appointed Netanyahu’s chief of staff in 2004, when Netanyahu was the finance minister. He also served in the education ministry and the Israel Ports Company, which manages the seaports of Haifa,…
Bernie Marcus, Home Depot founder who gave to Republicans and Israel, dies at 95
05.11 2024: …second only to Sheldon Adelson among conservative Jewish megadonors. Marcus helped propel Trump into the White House in 2016 by contributing $7 million and gave even more four years later to finance his failed reelection campaign.…
Israel News for 11-4-2024
04.11 2024: News Update Iran has reportedly conveyed diplomatic messages to various Arab states, including Egypt, Bahrain and Oman, indicating plans for a complex attack on Israel, using more powerful warheads than previously deployed, alongside other advanced weaponry.
Seven Killed in Shooting Attack in Jaffa, Central Israel, 16 Wounded
03.10 2024: the hometown of the attackers. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that during tonight’s cabinet meeting, he would demand that the terrorists’ family members be deported “to Gaza tonight” and that their homes be demolished.…
Israel News for 8-16-2024
16.08 2024: Defense Minister Gallant, Finance Minister Smotrich and National Security Minister Ben Gvir condemned the settler violence. The White House also issued a statement condemning the attack and urging Israeli authorities to protect…
Fitch cuts Israel's credit rating with negative outlook
13.08 2024: Work to form a responsible 2025 state budget as soon as possible The Ministry of Finance accountant general Yali Rothenberg said about the rating cut, The continuation of the war and the rise in geopolitical risk influences the fiscal…
Netanyahu empowered to choose Civil Service Commissioner
12.08 2024: The director general of the Prime Minister’s Office set up a ‘search team’ to function as a sort of search committee, with the participation of the head of the Budgets Division in the Ministry of Finance,…
Treasury prepares 2025 emergency budget cuts plan
12.08 2024: Ministry of Finance director general Shlomi Heisler, includes a list of reforms and legal amendments, which aim to cut government spending before the contingency budget comes into effect. The Ministry of Finance package of measures…
Shekel weakens amid security tensions
12.08 2024: Prico Risk Management, Finance and Investments CEO Yossi Fraiman said, Last week activity by the business sector infused foreign currency and led to excess supply and the appreciation of the shekel. But the fear of an imminent…
Lawyer - part-time English fluent
12.08 2024: Allia Group has a mission to change the bad behavior of health insurers by serving as the platform to adjudicate healthcare provider claims and lead to the improvement of the economics of healthcare. We are a unique litigation finance…
Shekel rebounds strongly despite continued tension
07.08 2024: Energy Finance CEO Yossi Frank explained that the shekel was strengthening today for two reasons, The understanding in the markets that the Iranian response will probably not be powerful, and thus the level of concern among investors decreases.…
Not another penny for UNRWA, senator says
07.08 2024: …wrote the member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Some 10 days after the Hamas attack, Blackburn co-sponsored legislation to defund UNRWA. It is clear that U.S. aid intended for the Palestinian people has repeatedly ended up in the…
Interior Minister Arbel seeks new airport at Beit She'an
06.08 2024: the Ministry of Defense opposed it, and the Ministry of Finance pushed for Ramat David. Industry sources explained that the local authority elections held this year meant that Regev could not retract,…
Intel to announce mass layoffs - report
31.07 2024: Semiconductor giant Intel plans to shed thousands of employees in order to finance technological development and reverse its loss of market share, news agency Bloomberg reports. According to the report,…
Right-wing Israelis stormed army bases. What happened, and why does it matter?
30.07 2024: Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister who is in charge of the West Bank, have stirred tensions within the government, with advocacy and actions at odds with the government’s mainstream ministers.…
Housing purchase tax cut approved for new immigrants
29.07 2024: The Knesset Finance Committee today approved an amendment to the real estate taxation regulations on benefits for new immigrants purchasing real estate in Israel. The Knesset Finance Committee today approved an amendment to the real…
Shekel hit hard by Lebanon war worries
29.07 2024: Prico Risk Management, Finance and Investments CEO Yossi Fraiman tells Globes After the initial shock, the depreciation potential depends on the nature of the Israeli response and its consequences, with the market taking advantage of…
Israel to apply 15% minimum corporate tax from 2026
28.07 2024: I am grateful to the Ministry of Finance and Tax Authority officials, who worked in cooperation with the industry, investors, and other interested parties.
As I have done from the outset as Minister of Finance,…
Israel's traffic jams add 6% to cost of living - study
24.07 2024: The researchers also recommend using the rise in the value of land as a result of planning to finance investment in transport projects through betterment levies and public-private partnerships. These things will be applied in the…
Wiz wins huge Israeli gov’t tender
23.07 2024: …which has walked away from a $23 billion acquisition bid by Google parent company Alphabet, has been awarded a tender by Israel’s Ministry of Finance to provide cloud security services for government ministries, Globes’ has learned…
How will markets respond to Biden's withdrawal?
22.07 2024: Speaking to Yahoo! Finance, Josh Thompson, CEO of Impact Health USA, said, Investors generally prefer stability and predictability and such a significant political shift would disrupt both. Thompson added that the immediate…
Joe Biden ends campaign, endorses Kamala Harris, as talks to end Israel-Hamas war enter critical phase
21.07 2024: “We have to do everything we can to prevent Donald Trump’s election,” a leading Biden Victory Fund Finance Committee member told JTA in the days after the debate. “I’ve been hearing the same thing pretty uniformly” that other Jewish…
Regev seeks to scupper Tel Aviv congestion charge
21.07 2024: Ministry of Finance will. We’re a year behind because of the delay to the congestion charge. There’s no other source of finance. She was referring to the fact that some of the finance for constructing the Metro underground railway…
Centerbridge and Gallatin sell control of Phoenix
17.07 2024: Israel's biggest insurance and finance company The Phoenix Holdings has notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that its controlling shareholders Centerbridge Partners and Gallatin Point are selling most of their stake.…