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Roaring Lion: Israel's self-employed need an economic safety net during crisis - opinion

Israel's war with Iran severely harms small and micro-businesses and the freelance population and increases the likelihood that they will not be able to recover.

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of a downwards-trending graph (illustration)
 New Israeli Shekel banknotes and coins, illustrative. November 9, 2021

Your Taxes: Doing business in Israel in 2026

FARMERS AND their supporters protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem against a milk reform promoted by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in Jerusalem on February 4, 2026.

Israel’s milk crisis is man-made, quotas are to blame - opinion

Truck and car on highway in front of stacks of shipping containers

Israel, Costa Rica sign FTA eliminating over 90% of tariffs, expanding bilateral trade


Despite declining income inequality, Israeli productivity lags behind

Between 2012 and 2017, the net income of households in lowest and middle quintiles increased at an average annual rate of 4%, compared to 2.6% among highest-quintile households.

Employees of Partner, an Israeli communication firm, work at their desks at Partner's headquaters in Rosh Ha'ayin near Tel Aviv, Israel June 21, 2016.

Israel endangered by lack of long-term economic thinking, expert says

‘Two separate economies,’ inequality, waste of human talent weighing heavily on country’s future, Start-Up Nation Central head tells ‘Post’

Prof. Eugene Kandel

PISA tests: Israeli students consistently behind developed world

The PISA examinations showed Israeli students underperforming in reading, mathematics and science. They also reveal a growing gap between Hebrew-speaking and Arabic-speaking pupils.

Students from middle schools in Nazareth and Nof Hagalil study together and create joint projects

Israel invests less in healthcare than most OECD countries

Jewish state shows shortage of healthcare providers, aging medical personnel

ONTARIO HEALTH MINISTER Dr. Eric Hoskins (center) visits Wolfson Medical Center in Holon last week for a close up look at its famed Save a Child’s Heart program.

Your Taxes: OECD pushes world tax transparency

This second annual peer review considers implementation of the CbC reporting minimum standard by jurisdictions as of April 2019.

Calculating taxes

Higher education funding nearly doubles in 10 years

Number of students up 10% in decade, with increase in Arab enrollment more than 100%

Picture: Tel Aviv University students on campus.

OECD: Israel big spender on education, students receive less

"We are leading a series of significant reforms, but the system faces major and important challenges, which require closing budgetary gaps."

A mother takes a selfie with her first-grade daughter on the first day of school

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit inaugurates third Children’s Center in Israel

More than 2 million Israelis live below the poverty line according to the 2018 Alternative Poverty Report.

Rav Lau with Aryeh Lurie

Israeli healthcare expenditure rises, remains below OECD average

While current national healthcare expenditure as a share of GDP is lower than average spend in OECD countries, Israel's expenditure was higher than 10 other OECD nations.

Nurses take care of newborn babies at a nursery in Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem

Your Taxes: Is offshore still an option?

The OECD has just published a report on which offshore locations have changed their ways.

Approximately 170,000 Americans live in Israel. In total, more than one million U.S. citizens and green card holders – who both live overseas and own more than 10% of a foreign corporation – faced the prospect of paying the tax.