Cost of living in israel

Former PM Bennett unveils plan to lower Israel’s cost of living if victorious in Knesset election

The Together Party's proposal targets monopolies, import restrictions, and barriers to competition.

|ByANNA BARSKY
Chairman of the “Together” party and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2026.
A shopping mall

Whining about the cost of living, continuing to wear Nike and Adidas

The Israeli consumer cries and pays, pays and cries, and simply refuses to give up on the big brands. Are we suckers or simply loyal?

|By NIR KIPNIS
An illustrative image of fast fashion.

Stop blaming shoppers for fast fashion: Israel's government should fix the market - opinion

Not everyone needs a new dress for every event. Re-wearing clothes should be part of the solution. But when the wedding season brings one event after another, women want more than one option.

|BySHANI SHEINBLAT
Housing Prices.

Israel's cost of living surpasses wealthiest European countries

The cost of living in Israel is such an outlier that it erodes the standard of living in the country by 14%, and the study argues that it could encourage emigration.

|ByASAF ZAGRIZAK/GLOBES/TNS

Grapevine, January 29, 2023: The limits of freedom

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 29, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT Isaac Herzog with dignitaries of Belgium’s Jewish community at the Great Synagogue of Europe.

14 Days: IDF chief

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

JANUARY 28, 2023BySTEVE LINDE
Herzi Halevi becomes the new IDF chief of staff.

Israel's energy prices are the highest they've been in nine years

"It's time to lower the burden of excise taxes on gasoline."

JANUARY 26, 2023ByYEHUDA SHARONI/MAARIV
A worker fills up a car with fuel at a gas station in Beirut, Lebanon, September 12, 2022.

Dairy costs set to drop amid cost of living crisis

By reducing the cost of milk itself, the Agriculture Ministry aims to reduce the price of all dairy producs as they are all primarily milk-based.

JANUARY 25, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Cows establish a complex social hierarchy that new dairy farmers must manage

Fix Israel's high prices, cost of living with true free-market system - opinion

The real issue in the Israeli market is that it is not a capitalist system but an oligopoly.

JANUARY 25, 2023ByIBRAHIM ABU AHMAD, HILLEL PORTUGAIS-DE ALMEIDA
A CUSTOMER shops for groceries at a Rami Levy supermarket branch, in Jerusalem.

What are the challenges facing Israel's new government? - opinion

The government will have to deal not only with correcting past defects but mainly with pressing political-security related issues and economic-social matters.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByZALMAN SHOVAL
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on Sunday.

Israeli import reforms to bring greater variety to store shelves in 2023

Israelis can expect more variety on store shelves in 2023 due to import reforms that hope to increase market competition and reduce the cost of living.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByZACHY HENNESSEY
Consumers at a supermarket, illustration

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis could be laid off without change

The Manufacturers' Association of Israel has warned that if the situation doesn't drastically change, hundreds of thousands of employees will be laid off.

JANUARY 19, 2023ByYEHUDA SHARONI/MAARIV
Independent business owners and workers from the tourism sector protest, calling for financial support from the Israeli government, outside the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 13, 2021

Gov't's economic plan ‘smokescreen to hide seizure of power’ -Merav Michaeli

“Spoiler: Mr. ‘Cost of Living’ won't deal with the cost of living, just like he won't really deliver free education,” Michaeli wrote.

JANUARY 12, 2023ByZACHY HENNESSEY
Merav Michaeli at the Maariv conference,

Netanyahu, Smotrich announce plan to combat cost of living in Israel

The new government’s plan includes utility price cuts, boosted stipends and stable gas price in order to stop the rising cost of living in Israel.

JANUARY 11, 2023ByZACHY HENNESSEY
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and FInance Minister Bezalel Smotrich present the government's financial plan on January 11, 2023