Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will bring an NIS three billion “extra-budgetary box” aimed at covering expenses of the war for government approval Sunday. An extra-budgetary box is a tool that enables Israel’s government to spend money outside of the budget without finding funding sources. The law prohibits the government from overspending the budget once
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has said if the ICC issued arrest warrants Norway would be obliged to abide by them [Tomas Tkacik/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty] Israel has stopped transferring Palestinian tax revenues it collects to Oslo to punish Norway for recognising Palestine. Through the move, Israel is also expressing anger at strong-worded statements
The coordinator of the opposition in Israel’s Knesset Finance Committee, MK Vladimir Beliak (Yesh Atid), criticized on Thursday reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised to assist a major haredi school system affiliated with United Torah Judaism MK and Knesset Finance Committee chairman, MK Moshe Gafni, that is currently under legal scrutiny for
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced Sunday a number of significant changes in how Israel’s 2025 budget will be built compared to how the country’s budgets are normally determined and said that talks on the budget would be held directly after the Shavuot holiday. Per the minister’s instructions, presentations on the budget will be held
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have Turkey removed from the ceasefire talks, in a letter published on Friday. In the letter, Smotrich stated that he was surprised to have learned that representatives of Israel’s “antisemitic enemy Erdogan” are part of the peace talks, and that “Erdogan should be canceled,