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

Israel Katz refusing to allow staffers to begin drafting a state budget to avert end-of-year elections, Shaul Meridor charges in first interview since explosive resignation

PM has always sought to sideline competing ministers and make all the decisions himself; that strategy served him well in the first wave of the virus, but then he got distracted

Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, 43, the first non-doctor to lead the Health Ministry, is bucking withering criticism with a strategy aimed to prevent coronavirus from overwhelming hospitals