Finance Ministry chief urges health officials to resist more severe lockdown despite runaway infections; ministers expected to review fresh limits on workforce, synagogue closures

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

Shaul Meridor decries decision-making process influenced by ‘narrow interests,’ disregarding decades of budgetary rules; Finance Minister Katz accuses him of 'political interests'

Unclear if compromise will stave off strike by Israeli Medical Association

Israel Medical Association announces labor dispute, says its 28,000 members will stop working if demands aren't met within 14 days

Israel Katz says he's not aware of push by Netanyahu for another round of cash grants and that in any case, 'I don’t think we should do that’

Officials concerned ranking could drop; financial plan still not approved despite three elections and the formation of a unity government

GDP could contract by 7.2% in 2020 if economic restrictions are reimposed due to coronavirus pandemic, according to forecast

NIS 4.2 billion program will see kindergartens, grades 1-2 hold regular studies; grades 3-4 with classes divided into capsules; higher grades mostly to have distance learning

Knesset gives final okay to treasury proposal, which outlines grants for the self-employed and businesses hurt by the pandemic, and workers over 67 who have been laid off