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Taub Center 2025 Report: Rising defense debt and low productivity threaten Israel’s 2026 growth

After two years of war, Israelis are facing mounting economic pressures. A new report by the Taub Center warns country must boost productivity and invest in human capital

The Housing Market in Israel.
 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends an inauguration event for Israel's new light rail line for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, in Petah Tikva, Israel, August 17, 2023.

Israel plans to bring budget deficit below 3% of GDP for 2026-28

 People shop at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, December 24, 2024.

Israel's war spending in 2024 lifts debt burden to 69% of GDP

 Government expenditures, revenues, and the deficit, January 1, 2024.

Jerusalem's economic woes: Israel's deficit increased twice initial predictions


How do Israel's travel requirements compare to other countries?

"I'd say Israel is probably the country with the widest margins of error and the safest procedures in place of those who are at all opening," a source told The Jerusalem Post.

TRAVELERS LINE UP at Ben-Gurion Airport earlier this month.

Finance Ministry: Economy may need five years to recover from crisis

The report forecasts two possible scenarios: One in which the country manages to dance with the virus and one in which there are extreme spikes in morbidity.

Jerusalemites wearing face masks for fear of coronavirus  walk on Jaffa road in the City Center of Jerusalem on July 12, 2020. Israel has seen a spike of new COVID-19 cases,  cabinet ministers imposed new restrictions on public gatherings in a bid to stem the rising infection rate of the coronavirus

Israel economic growth slows to 3.3%, weakest since 2015

Growth in 2020 is expected to remain close to 3%, but Bank of Israel policymakers have expressed caution, given the current government stalemate.

A woman uses an ATM at a branch of Israel Discount Bank in Tel Aviv, Israel July 27, 2016

Israeli healthcare expenditure rises, remains below OECD average

While current national healthcare expenditure as a share of GDP is lower than average spend in OECD countries, Israel's expenditure was higher than 10 other OECD nations.

Nurses take care of newborn babies at a nursery in Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem

Bank of Israel leaves interest rate unchanged at 0.25%

Except for December 2018, the annual inflation rate has remained at 1.2% or higher over the past nine months, slightly above the lower bound of the bank's 1%-3% target range.

Prof. Amir Yaron, the tenth Governor of the Bank of Israel

Economy Minister says Israel will be leading OECD economy within decade

Speaking at the Maariv Leaders Conference in Jerusalem, Cohen said Israel could rise from its current ranking by focusing on the country's hi-tech and energy sectors.

Economy Minister Eli Cohen at the Maariv Leaders Conference

Netanyahu touts Israel for surpassing Japan in GDP per capita

Israel enjoys GDP per capita of $42,120. In contrast, Japan's GDP per capita is $40,850.

Visitn Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 18, 2015

Israel Economy is Entering a New Stage

The Jerusalem Post

Finance Committee to vote on executive-pay bill

The bill would put a series of regulations in place for executives making over NIS 3.5 million a year.

Moshe Gafni

OECD: Israel fourth in foreign direct investment

For Israel, the OECD accounted for the lion’s share of FDI inflows, with almost $3b. in 2012.

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