Finance minister to meet with leaders in Jewish, global business communities; but US officials, liberal Jewish groups are boycotting him after 'wipe out' Huwara remark

LeumiTech says it helped Israeli startups transfer $1 billion out of SVB accounts; government pledges to help tech firms

Ex-staffers in Budgets Department call for immediate halt to legislative blitz; warn capital will flee and shekel devalue, leading to drop in state revenues and spending cuts

With Silicon Valley Bank closed, Finance Minister Smotrich says he forming a special team to look into the potential consequences for Israeli companies

23 ex-employees say mission's current staff part of effort to 'whitewash Israel’s first government with explicitly anti-democratic intentions,' urge them to join protest movement

Finance minister will address Israel Bonds conference, less than two weeks after calling to 'wipe out' Palestinian town before walking back demand and apologizing

Participants in nighttime meeting, which included heads of several major Israeli firms, say Levin expressed openness to compromise but rejected calls to halt legislative push

In post 1 week after scandal-sparking remark, minister in defense ministry says he must do soul-searching after pilots understood words as directive to obliterate entire town

New hard-right leadership agreed to a meeting in Aqaba that previous centrist coalition refused to contemplate, with PM's desire to keep tensions in check winning out over ideology

Fellow members of Likud also chastise Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi over his remarks; Yesh Atid MK says lawmaker should be fired