Netanyahu promises emergency aid for vital industries; finance minister calls on businesses to allow working from home; airports authority announces cutbacks

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon cancels financial and quota restrictions on foreign butter in bid to increase supply

Netanyahu calls meeting to address financial fallout of disease outbreak, calls for caution and cooperation, as Tel Aviv Stock Exchange continues to slide

TV report claims Netanyahu considering replacing Moshe Kahlon with popular Likud MK to attract moderate right-wing voters

Investigators find suggestive messages between finance minister and Eti Craif, already implicated in sex scandal; both deny any affair

Palestinian delegation meets with Finance Minister Kahlon, gives him letter in which PA president warns proposal means end of Oslo accords and security cooperation with Israel

A successor in the cabinet likely won't be named for another six months; spokesman says Kahlon wants to spend time with family

Israeli TV says finance minister expected to end his political career when next Knesset sworn in; has previously denied reports of plans to leave politics

Azzam al-Ahmad says Palestinians shouldn't 'hurt' themselves in responding to Jerusalem's decision to withhold funds over payouts to families of dead attackers

Mounting anger and confusion comes as Israel withholds funds from Ramallah at same time that it edges toward a long-term agreement with Hamas in Gaza