Shaul Meridor

Katz says he was going to fire budget chief who quit

Katz said he would soon appoint a replacement for Meridor.

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN, GIL HOFFMAN
Budget director Shaul Meridor attends a press conference with at the Finance Ministry office in Jerusalem, September 23, 2019.
Budget director Shaul Meridor attends a press conference at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on December 11, 2017.

Will Meridor’s resignation impact the economy?

“The credit agencies are going to downgrade us soon,” Tel Aviv University Professor of Economics Assaf Razin told The Jerusalem Post.

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN
New Finance Minister Israel Katz

Finance Minister Katz scolds ministry's legal consultant

Tensions between Finance Minister Israel Katz and Asi Messing have reached a boiling point during a meeting concerning responsibility sharing over professional retraining of unemployed workers

|ByDANIEL NISINMAN
Budget director Shaul Meridor attends a press conference at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on December 11, 2017.

Finance Ministry budget chief quits, furious with Katz's behavior

Finance Ministry Head of the Budget Department submits a three-page resignation letter, ending a turbulent relationship with the minister who accused him of undermining him.

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Finance Ministry director-general: Budget deficit is 'not a catastrophe'

Israel's growing budget deficit is a problem which needs to fixed, but is "not a catastrophe or a financial crisis," Finance Ministry director-general Shai Babad said on Monday.

NOVEMBER 11, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
Finance Ministry director-general Shai Babad participates in a Knesset Finance Committee meeting, November 11, 2019