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Your Taxes: OECD, G20 launch plan to expose untaxed real estate funds and income

A new OECD initiative aims to close real estate loopholes, exposing untaxed funds, rental income, and capital gains. This could affect anyone with global property investments.

 A WOMAN withdraws money from a Bank Hapoalim ATM in Tel Aviv in March.
New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of a downwards-trending graph (illustration)

Roaring Lion: Israel's self-employed need an economic safety net during crisis - opinion

 New Israeli Shekel banknotes and coins, illustrative. November 9, 2021

Your Taxes: Doing business in Israel in 2026

FARMERS AND their supporters protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem against a milk reform promoted by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in Jerusalem on February 4, 2026.

Israel’s milk crisis is man-made, quotas are to blame - opinion


Israel economic growth slows to 3.3%, weakest since 2015

Growth in 2020 is expected to remain close to 3%, but Bank of Israel policymakers have expressed caution, given the current government stalemate.

A woman uses an ATM at a branch of Israel Discount Bank in Tel Aviv, Israel July 27, 2016

Despite declining income inequality, Israeli productivity lags behind

Between 2012 and 2017, the net income of households in lowest and middle quintiles increased at an average annual rate of 4%, compared to 2.6% among highest-quintile households.

Employees of Partner, an Israeli communication firm, work at their desks at Partner's headquaters in Rosh Ha'ayin near Tel Aviv, Israel June 21, 2016.

Israel endangered by lack of long-term economic thinking, expert says

‘Two separate economies,’ inequality, waste of human talent weighing heavily on country’s future, Start-Up Nation Central head tells ‘Post’

Prof. Eugene Kandel

PISA tests: Israeli students consistently behind developed world

The PISA examinations showed Israeli students underperforming in reading, mathematics and science. They also reveal a growing gap between Hebrew-speaking and Arabic-speaking pupils.

Students from middle schools in Nazareth and Nof Hagalil study together and create joint projects

Israel invests less in healthcare than most OECD countries

Jewish state shows shortage of healthcare providers, aging medical personnel

ONTARIO HEALTH MINISTER Dr. Eric Hoskins (center) visits Wolfson Medical Center in Holon last week for a close up look at its famed Save a Child’s Heart program.

Your Taxes: OECD pushes world tax transparency

This second annual peer review considers implementation of the CbC reporting minimum standard by jurisdictions as of April 2019.

Calculating taxes

Higher education funding nearly doubles in 10 years

Number of students up 10% in decade, with increase in Arab enrollment more than 100%

Picture: Tel Aviv University students on campus.

OECD: Israel big spender on education, students receive less

"We are leading a series of significant reforms, but the system faces major and important challenges, which require closing budgetary gaps."

A mother takes a selfie with her first-grade daughter on the first day of school

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit inaugurates third Children’s Center in Israel

More than 2 million Israelis live below the poverty line according to the 2018 Alternative Poverty Report.

Rav Lau with Aryeh Lurie

Israeli healthcare expenditure rises, remains below OECD average

While current national healthcare expenditure as a share of GDP is lower than average spend in OECD countries, Israel's expenditure was higher than 10 other OECD nations.

Nurses take care of newborn babies at a nursery in Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem