Steinitz defends Lapid's budget cuts

The two-year budget was a policy former finance minister Yuval Steinitz urged Lapid to continue. Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Bayit Yehudi head Naftali Bennett at Knesset swear in, Feb 5, 2013. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post Yair ...

Outgoing Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz (R) sits next to incoming Finance Minister Yair Lapid during a changeover ceremony in Jerusalem March 19, 2013. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun JERUSALEM: A senior Israeli official says it is "apparently clear" ...

The deficit got bigger because of the results of the social justice protest from the summer of 2011, former finance minister Yuval Steinitz told Army Radio on Sunday. According to Steinitz, the reforms that followed the protest cost the government a ...

Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz called on world powers on Sunday to set a deadline for military action of weeks to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program after talks ended without progress at the weekend. World powers and ...

Change of Guard Ceremony Held on March 19 at the Ministry of Finance Finance Minister, Yair Lapid to Steinitz: I thank you A changing-of-the-guard ceremony took place on March 19 at the Ministry of Finance. Incoming Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, ...

The title of international affairs minister that the Likud's Yuval Steinitz received could be a stepping stone to the Foreign Ministry, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reassured Steinitz this week, Likud sources revealed exclusively to The ...

Only a "significant and tangible threat" to Iran will halt Tehran's nuclear program, Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Saturday, following P5+1's failure to end the stalemate in nuclear talks in Kazakhstan. "This failure was predictable. Israel has ...

The finance minister's mistake was not in causing Israel's huge deficit, but in claiming he would protect the 'working man' long after it was clear he could not. The problem with Yair Lapid isn't that he is reneging on his election-campaign ...

MK Danny Danon Photo: Courtesy: Knesset With a vote in the full cabinet expected Monday on Finance Minister Yair Lapid's budget proposal for 2013- 2014, the security cabinet met throughout the day Sunday and into the night to parse out NIS 4 billion ...