Israeli Government Budget

Protesters block Knesset entrance following approval of 2026 state budget

"While the Israeli public is sitting in shelters, the government of massacre approves a pig-sized budget," the protesters stated.

MARCH 30, 2026|ByTZVI JASPER

PROTESTERS GATHER outside the Knesset against the approved 2026 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

“The costly campaign requires a special budget with the addition of tens of billions of shekels for the war effort,” Netanyahu said.

MARCH 10, 2026|ByKESHET NEEV

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

By law, if the state budget is not approved in all three readings by the end of March, when the fiscal year closes, the Knesset will automatically dissolve, and elections will be called.

JANUARY 27, 2026|ByKESHET NEEV

2026 budget reading puts government at risk, after months of ideological sparring - analysis

If the vote is postponed, or if the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties choose not to support it and it falls, then for all intents and purposes the government will fall with it.

JANUARY 27, 2026|ByHERB KEINON

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.

NOVEMBER 12, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

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.

OCTOBER 1, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV

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.

MAY 28, 2017ByJEREMY SHARON

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.

MAY 14, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

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.

DECEMBER 25, 2016BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

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.

DECEMBER 21, 2016ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI