Israeli Government Budget

Knesset Finance panel debates transfer of NIS 98 million to haredi schools

The High Court ordered last month that the Finance Committee reconvene and hold a fresh deliberation on the matter before voting to approve the transfer of the funds.

Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, during the war with Iran and Hezbollah, March 15, 2026.
PROTESTERS GATHER outside the Knesset against the approved 2026 budget.

Protesters block Knesset entrance following approval of 2026 state budget

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Netanyahu, Smotrich to 'set aside' haredi draft law, approve billions in defense funding for war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet seen at the Knesset plenum, June 11, 2025

Outcome of state budget vote uncertain amid coalition crisis over haredi draft


After protests, Israel approves NIS 1.45 b. increase in disability funds

In September, following protests in which disabled people obstructed busy intersections, the government approved a NIS 4.2 billion increase in disability benefits over the next four years.

Disabled activists sit in at the Knesset plenum discussing goverment allowances for the disabled, September 18, 2017.

Netanyahu asks coalition heads for political calm so state budget can pass

Speaking in a meeting of coalition party heads, Netanyahu and Moshe Kahlon said no new projects would be added to the budget and urged them to accept the Finance Ministry’s proposal as is.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Kahlon pushes initiative to ensure full-term government

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon's push for another two-year budget would ensure relative security for the Knesset's current tenure.

Moshe Kahlon

Government approves mammoth projects to upgrade access to Western Wall

Currently the only pedestrian access down to the Western Wall from the Jewish Quarter and back up to it is via a long set of stairs.

A view of the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

High Court freezes makeover for IBC

The court issued the temporary injunction after accepting a petition lodged by Zionist Union MK Eitan Cabel and others who were protesting the eighth amendment to the Public Broadcasting Law.

IBC STAFF are shown yesterday at their temporary studio in Modi’in preparing for today’s scheduled launch

When the government bribes its own MKs

In other words, the government paid its own MKs over a quarter of a billion shekels to vote for its budget.

SHOW US the money. Lawmakers attend a preliminary vote on a bill at the Knesset

One out of five households uses social services

The findings indicated that there are significant gaps between the periphery and the center of the country with regards to the number of people registered with welfare departments.

Boxes of food for the poor

Knesset kicks off final budget debates

MKs will be called upon to approve two last minute flat budget cuts amounting to NIS 3.3 billion proposed by Finance Ministry officials.

Moshe Gafni

Netanyahu wants to Trump president-elect in appointments

"We also need to be able to govern," prime minister tells cabinet.

Benjamin Netanyahu

2017-2018 state budget passes first Knesset vote

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu praises the new budget before the cabinet debate yesterday.