Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a rare statement over Shabbat playing down Moody’s decision to lower Israel’s credit rating and downgrade its future outlook, amid the ongoing war against Hamas. “The Israeli economy is strong.
The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the economies of both the embattled Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, the International Monetary Fund's chief said Sunday, adding that only "durable peace" would improve the outlook. "The
Former Bank of Israel governor Jacob Frenkel says Moody’s downgrade of Israel’s credit rating is a “dramatic mega event with long-term consequences.” Speaking to Channel 12, Frenkel says such a downgrade has “never happened” and
Israel's Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA), opens new tab has submitted a proposal to India's government to build an $8 billion chipmaking facility in the South Asian nation, national daily Indian Express reported on Sunday. Tower, seeking
Cori Bush, of the state of Missouri, has that the US “is funding this mass displacement and massacre of Palestinians” in the Gaza Strip, calling for Washington to end its “complicity”. “We must reclaim our
The UNRWA aid agency says it has ‘no knowledge’ of areas beneath its headquarters in Gaza. The chief of the UN’s aid agency in Gaza has said that it had no knowledge of what was
What is happening in Gaza’s Rafah as Israel threatens to attack? Over a million Palestinians are trapped at Gaza’s southernmost point, with the Israeli army preparing a ground attack. Rafah, a looming Israeli ground “operation”,
Israel holds nearly half the world's Jewish population, with 47% of all Jews living in Israel. An update last week from the online encyclopedia Jewish Virtual Library (JVL) showed that Israel's population stood at about
Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron said on Sunday the country's economy was strong and would recover from the impact of the war, but called on the government to address issues raised by Moody's after
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Saturday brushed off a Moody's downgrading of Israel's credit rating, saying the decision linked to the Gaza war was not based on sound economic reasoning and was tantamount to
