Financial institutions urge public to avoid face-to-face transactions; bankers receive deluge of some 6,000 requests to delay mortgage payments

Financial institutions seek to ease business and consumer hardship by buying bonds, offering loans, delaying mortgage payments

Governor Amir Yaron predicts coronavirus will cause 0.7% decline in GDP, convenes special team to monitor and address economic damage

Day after US Fed slashes rates, central bank says it 'will use variety of tools' to boost markets if coronavirus crisis persists

Mild COVID-19 epidemic could shave up to 1 percent off of GDP, authorities say at emergency Jerusalem meeting, as stocks in Tel Aviv tumble amid global worries

Leodiensian, whose appointment was approved by the cabinet this week, began working at the bank in 1987 and is a former head of its Market Operations Department

Moshe Gafni tells Knesset Finance Committee that all bodies charged with creating sovereign wealth fund in line with 2014 law are 'tainted' by lack of responsibility

Ministry officials will tell cabinet that ongoing political deadlock likely to weigh on growth rate for coming year, newspaper says

Globes: Ber, the regulator of Israel's banks, has asked to step down from her position on April 15, 2020, after a term of close to five years

Reuters: Israel's central bank leaves benchmark interest rate at 0.25% for the eighth consecutive decision, confounding analyst and investor expectations for a cut