Pension

Your Taxes: Recovering VAT on employee fringe benefits

Inputs for employees are defined as assets or services, such as meals, housing, gifts, or entertainment intended for the enjoyment, use, welfare, or benefit of employees or their family.

 An illustration showing VAT in 2025.
 An illustration signifying the importance of smaller steps as you climb a figurative ladder.

Lag Ba'Omer 2025 will act as vehicle to express prayers for hostages, soldiers, all Jews - opinion

Eldad Tamir and Ruti Broudo

Broudo sets expectations

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

Your Taxes: Withdrawals from savings - opinion


Largest private British pension fund dumps Israeli assets after pressure from members - report

The USS said in its most recent report that it had reduced its investments in the Middle East "in response to the financial risks that became apparent."

 THOSE WHO rely solely on their British pension (and pensions from other countries such as the US, for example, to a lesser degree) for their income have been even more severely affected.

The gaps in election polling, and what this means for Israel's political reality - opinion

The current differences between the polls are mainly manifest in the results of the Likud and the National Unity – the two major parties identified with the Israeli mainstream.

 PENSIONERS MINISTER Rafi Eitan sits in the Knesset plenum in 2006. His party surprised by winning seven Knesset seats in the election that year.

Knesset Labor Committee: IDF capitalization pensioners no longer repay loans 'for life'

In a significant move, the Knesset's Labor and Welfare committee has given the green light for certain IDF retirees to halt ongoing monthly repayments on loans taken out against their pensions.

MK Ofir Katz speaks during a Labor and Welfare Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on February 13. 2024.

By 2036, National Insurance Institute won't be able to pay pensions

According to the actuarial report, starting in 2030, a partial early fund redemption will be implemented, and it is projected to be depleted by 2036.

 National Insurance

Finance Minister Smotrich okays IDF pensions examinations

The committee is being formed as part of budget deliberations among Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Smotrich.

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a press conference, February 14, 2024.

One in five elderly Israelis needs social benefits, National Insurance finds

More than a million senior citizens receive a pension and still over 205,000 recipients need supplementary income.

Are we adequetly caring for our senior citizens?

Jerusalem's Holocaust survivors struggle to survive poverty, hunger

There are close to 10,000 Holocaust survivors living in Jerusalem. Do they go hungry? If so, who is responsible for that shameful situation?

 DO WE remember and provide for those still living in our midst?

Israel's small businesses will protest if rescue plan is ditched

If the upcoming state budget doesn't include a line for small businesses, it will echo and trickle down for generations, Lahav's president said.

BUSINESS OWNERS in Tel Aviv protest the ongoing nationwide closure, on Monday.

Grapevine, January 29, 2023: The limits of freedom

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT Isaac Herzog with dignitaries of Belgium’s Jewish community at the Great Synagogue of Europe.

'Pension plans are crucial for a financially safe and comfortable future'

Gideon Yardeni, Bank Hapoalim pension advisor and retirement planner, discusses practical tips for pension planning with Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Managing Editor of jpost.com.

 Gideon Yardeni and Tamar Uriel-Beeri

The ins and outs of pension plans – how to manage funds for retirement

Gideon Yardeni, Bank Hapoalim pension advisor and retirement planner, speaks with Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Managing Editor of jpost.com

Gideon Yardeni, Bank Hapoalim pension advisor and Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Managing Editor of jpost.com