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

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

Private citizens making over NIS 640,000 a year and public sector workers making NIS 30,000 a month no longer eligible for stipend

Hospitals and health clinics nationwide to offer reduced services, with exceptions in urgent cases and responses to coronavirus

With 813 nurses quarantined, union says personnel crisis was bad even before the pandemic; social workers continue labor dispute with protests across the country

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

Finance Ministry's director pushes back against claims bureaucrats holding up aid; minister Katz said to suspend funds for needy to prevent them from reaching refugee groups

Ex-Transportation Ministry head, 41, returns from maternity leave to take reins of Finance Ministry; ministers approve slate of new top executives of government ministries

A health minister who made no health decisions, a finance minister begging to leave office -- and powerful directors general setting policy in lieu of indifferent politicians