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Tag Archives: Budget 2009

Priming the (gas) pump

24-May-09

Aren’t those Israeli finance ministry people clever? It was just the other day when Yuval Steinitz, Bibi Netanyahu’s Finance Minister, was expressing he regrets over the decision to charge VAT on fruits and vegetable sold in open air and similar markets. The uproar this decision created resulted in the government deciding to back off from [...]

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Bibi Sinks Deeper in The Mud

15-May-09

The rock group Depeche Mode has come and gone, and so has the Lag B’Omer wiener roast and marshmallow toast. But P.M. Bibi Netanyahu and his so-called Chancellor of the Exchequer, Yuval Steinitz, continue to sink in the financial quagmire, they seem to have created by trying to be clever with the Israeli public.
As their [...]

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Security or Society?

17-Aug-08

Let ‘em eat cake.

First things first… as you’ve probably noticed, we’ve changed our theme at One Jerusalem. What do you think?
Now for a far more serious topic… The Ministry of Finance proposed two distinctively different budget plans for 2009. The first aims to cut fat from the Ministry of Defense, while the second aims to [...]

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