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The minister of finance can no longer cite falling housing price figures for the past year.

You had better live up to your responsibility for the Bank of Israel's standing, outgoing governor Karnit Flug is telling the prime minister between the lines.

The problems that threaten to drag Israel's economy down have to do with the entire workforce.

They whinge that they can't govern, but when it comes to confronting powerful lobbies, from the prime minister down they are nowhere to be seen.

Figures published Friday by the Central Bureau of Statistics spoiled the minister of finance's party by showing that the decline in housing prices has come to a halt.

Selling Shikun & Binui solves Shari Arison's Concentration Law problems, but the group has other reasons for selling all or part of its Bank Hapoalim stake.

Putin has given Israel carte blanche to take military action against Iranian targets in Syria, and against Iran's proxy Hezbollah, in Syria and Lebanon.