There is a general down turn China is slowing Russia has sanctions the USA owns a fortune trillions - commodity prices drop everywhere . So its a world phenomena. There a huge income gaps in countries in the USA its terrible . The wealth that exists in Israel has to be shared and speculative housing replaced by People's housings in the Palmach Dati way . And the Gallus ought make investments and help create a security and medical boom.

I am very happy to note that Kahalon is worried about the state of the economy. Maybe, he ought to have a frank word or two with his boss, who is largely responsible for the situation

kahlon says he is worried about financial state. Barak says bibi is fearful and worried and cannot take a decision. \i have already commented on that numerous times. \bibi is a press spokesman and nothing more as his father noted. On the other hand, ehud barak with his iightening decision and action persona was a lousy pm, very weak himself and was a flop at figthting terror, an absolute flop compared to yaalon. Bibi means well but relies on the world to say go- and just doesn't have it. When squeezed he makes concessions. \he is weak but he is better than barak, livni, herzog and lapid. \bennett, and feiglin are far more able to take a hard decisiion. \i also think barak was bluffing on the iran hit. \look how he screwed up the marmora/ as for bibi, he is not the worst but has no conception of how to win, to lead, to be bod. \which is why he runs to make speeches saying please help poor israel. \if he was smart, he would resign in a few months and allow a new leadrship contest. \i believe, if you look at bibis idf service, you can find his history of being errorprone and not knowing what the hell to do/

More anti Israel propaganda from YNET that you will never read in its Hebrew version. Israel's growth rate of 2% was much better than the Eurozone economies growth rate of 0.3%. YNet is a malignant publication which always tries to put Israel in the worst possible light--but only in its English edition. None of the hatred for Israel and delight in its faults appear in its Hebrew edition. It's like night and day. Here is from a real news paper: "The euro zone economy grew by less than expected in the second quarter, the European Union's statistics office said in its first estimate published on Friday. Eurostat said gross domestic product in the 19-country euro area grew by 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter in the April-June period, for a 1.2 percent year-on-year rise."

It is scary to think what this Minister might do to "help" economic growth. All the Goverment needs to do is get out of the way. Deregulation alone will produce a boost in efficiency. Picking favorites through subsidies does nothing but rearrange the split of the pie.

This is exhilirating news! Proves that the BDS movement is really beginning to bite the Zionists hard. Their illicit state can maybe wither on the vine with little or even no military action needed to liberate all of Palestine. BDS! BDS!

of which you have proven yourself to be one, what do you PREDICT Europe will do about the imaginary "occuptation and colonization", declare war on Israel? Guess what, bumpkin, Europe has much more serious problems to be concerned with, such as the tens of thousands of refugees it has to absorb daily while it's economies are already struggling. Just another addition to your long list of failed predictions.

Could this be due to BDS? I mean boycott of consumer items like fruits and vegetables and grocery items. And when we are not proceeding in anyway with a peace initiative, military operations in Gaza every two years and only talking about Iran, who wants to invest here?

why don't you give up your cushy lives and come live here...we'll teach you all about the economic reality of the occupation. Or are all of you just big words no action?

like he is blessing your accursed country and sending pathetic Syrian refugees to mine?

Of the Dutch Illness initiated by easy money flowing from the gas fieds

with your valuable pearls of wisdom and cutting logic. With your uniquely intelligent advice, we can get out of all these crises.

over our impending demise? Yet we are still here. Rest assured my antisemitic Polish friend, we will outlast you.

True and well said.

Europeans do not need tanks bullets, F-16 planes or drones they need to use only three alphabets i.e B D S. BDS can destroy small and huge countries. Try to learn something even from a nobrainer.

Deeb is right. The three alphabets are very dangerous for occupiers and colonizers. Stay in Belgium and welcome those refugees hurt by BDS.

What alphabets, Arabic? Cyrillic? Chinese? You mean LETTERS, don't you Harold? BDS is already backfiring, as people in Europe learn what it really is all about: heckling, slander, violence, support for terrorism, nihilism, blackmail, totalitarianism, suppression of free will, stifling of legitimate public debate, rewarding of the evil, threats against the good.

across the world, using Graczek's faux-"theological" argument which you endorse. Massive dive yesterday, and the surges this morning have all evaporated.

the heredi as a 200 yr old cult of pyschotic zealots have made Israel the world's target for scapegoating. when these parasites finish with Israel she will be a dessicated corpse. STOP THE TAIL FROM WAGGING THE DOG, SEPARATE HEREDI FROM ISRAELI GOVERNANCE.

no European country is threatening to wipe another European off of the map, as is the case with Israel. Hence, except when Czar Putin appears on the horizon, there is no pressing need in Europe for tanks, bullets, etc. unless they are manufactured in order to sell to the moslems so they can destroy themselves, such as BDS= Bring Down Syria.

#8. The last thing on earth Israel needs is another phony "peace initiative with Palestinians". These initiatives cost thousands of Israelis their lives and wellbeing. Economies go up and down. That is their nature, in Israel and everywhere else. Moreover, this article paints an unrealistically dark picture of Israel's economy.