Ministers call to ease closure, reopen small businesses, preschools and airport, as infection rate appears to stabilize a week into lockdown

PM proposes to further tighten closure, drawing rebuke from Gantz; orders hospitals to prepare to treat 5,000 seriously ill patients

COVID-19 czar encourages cabinet to launch PR campaign among Haredi and Arab publics; finance minister backs relaxing rules on private sector

Ministers limit holiday prayer gatherings and demonstrations, close 'nonessential' businesses ; finance minister decries new closure's 'critical' harm to the economy

'We all have to bear the burden,' says Netanyahu amid anger from business owners, workers again affected by Israel's second national lockdown

PM defends 3-week closure set to begin Friday afternoon, says government ‘made every effort to balance health considerations and economic needs’

Funds to go to defense, stipends for disabled, yeshivas, aliyah and education projects; amid standoff over permanent budget, finance minister says work has started on 2021 proposal

Knesset State Audit Committee convened to discuss finance ministry's handling of budget process, resignation of former budget chief amid allegations of political interference

After government push to cut wages of public servants, labor leader says Finance Minister Katz behaving 'like a bully,' treating government employees with 'contempt'

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