Topic: Yuval Steinitz

Finance Minister Steinitz says growth forecast downgraded because of expectations of global economic slowdown. The budget deficit is expected to...
Israel bonds have been an important tool for the government to handle its finances since they first went up for sale in 1948. Israel raised a...

Israel says may hold Palestinian taxes on U.N. bid

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Tuesday threatened severe financial ramifications if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes good on a plan to request U.N. membership for a Palestinian state this week.Steinitz, a close ally of Israeli Prime ...

Israeli protesters seek radical change

Israel's protest movement has shown the breadth of its appeal by drawing hundreds of thousands of people to demonstrations, but now it faces tough choices about priorities that could risk dividing its ranks."Our delegates met to draft a list of ...

Israel suspends tax transfer to Palestinians: paper

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has suspended tax transfers to the Palestinians in response to their U.S.-backed president's bid to forge an alliance with rival Hamas Islamists opposed to peace talks, an Israeli newspaper said on Sunday.Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz ...

Strike at Israel's Ben Gurion airport

Staff at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv went on strike Monday, grounding all flights and leaving arriving passengers without their luggage.A few hundred people were at the airport awaiting their flights, evidently hoping the open-ended strike would ...
The Israeli cabinet Sunday approved listing some Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as " national priority zones," entitling the communities to millions of dollars of extra state funding.The decision is certain to stir furore as it comes just weeks after ...
Benjamin Netanyahu hoped to be the first Israeli leader to serve as both Prime Minister and Finance Minister in his own government. But political constraints and the need to hand out ministerial posts to members of his Likud party forced him to ...
Israel will have to decide whether to go it alone in a military operation against Iran's nuclear program before the end of President Bush's term, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said here this week.. "The ...