Minister of Finance, Dr. Yuval Steinitz, presented to the Knesset Finance Committee a review of 2011 and the Finance Ministry's forecast for 2012.

While Israel's economy is in a relatively strong position, mainly due to the policy pursued by the different governments in the last few years, we cannot expect to avoid a slowdown in growt ...

The decision to reduce the interest rate to 2.5 percent for February 2012 is consistent with the interest rate policy that is intended to entrench the inflation rate within the price stabil ...

The mission will present its preliminary report to the Governor of the Bank of Israel and the Minister of Finance on February 13.

The following article summarizes key events and developments over the last year in the Ministry of Finance and the Israeli economy.