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'Catastrophic event on historic scale': Israel plunges in PISA rankings with worst-ever test scores

Across all three subjects, Israel's 2025 PISA results were the lowest ever recorded for the country and were significantly lower than those recorded in 2018, 2015, and 2012.

Keshet high school students take their mathematics matriculation examination (Bagrut), in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020.
The big winner is right next to us: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Global tourism shift: Saudi Arabia surges as Israel ranks last

Students in class

Israel drops below OECD average in proportion of academics

MRI scan.

Health Ministry report reveals long wait times for MRI, surgeries at hospitals and clinics


Israel wastes over 1/3rd of its food every year - Leket

Leket CEO: Incomprehensible a solution exists that would be effective across the board with economic, social, environmental and health benefits, and yet, the government ignores it.

Fresh vegetables are sold at the shuk (market)

Israel's Supreme Court upholds tax treaties in foreign levy case

The Supreme Court analyzed the situation and the law in detail. In the end the Court ruled against the employing companies for a number of reasons.

Israel's High Court of Justice

Israeli tax regulations expand transfer-pricing reporting rules

Transfer pricing studies must now be filed within 30 days after any request from the ITA, instead of 60 days previously.

 Illustrative image of doing taxes.

OECD members beware: Global tax might be on the way

What should a taxpayer company do if Israel adopts a 15% minimum tax?

Calculating taxes

Israeli teachers earn more comparatively than others in the OECD - report

As teachers threaten to strike, the Shoresh institution questions if teachers' wages are the main issue in the education system.

 Children wearing face masks attend a class as students return to school after the summer break, less than a month into a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine booster drive, at Arazim Elementary School in Tel Aviv, Israel September 1, 2021

The OECD Robin Hood package – Here's what you need to know

YOUR  TAXES: The new OECD plan is an unfinished symphony.

 Secretary-General of the OECD Mathias Cormann and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman.

Israel's housing prices reach highest in 12 years alongside soaring CPI

The latest CPI statistics reveal that inflation is Israel is nowhere near plateauing.

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Zeev Elkin, Minister of Housing and Construction attend a press conference, presenting new reform on housing, at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem, June 12, 2022

OECD report finds Israel has one of the biggest pay gaps between teachers

Israel has one of the world’s biggest gaps in salaries between teachers, according to a report by the OECD on teachers’ salaries in 2021.

 TENS OF thousands of teachers demonstrate in Tel Aviv, May 30.

'Western economies are signing on with Israel with their eyes closed'

Banking expert: Israel is at a stable starting point despite the political instability, thanks to the low unemployment rate

VARIOUS ISRAELI banknotes are displayed for an illustrative photo. The economy is well on its way to the pre-pandemic standards of budgetary discipline.

OECD proposes to tighten CRS and crypto rules

A public consulting period ended on April 29, and the OECD is reviewing comments received before formulating a final set of recommendations for governments to start adopting.

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman met with department officials to discuss Israel's accession to  the OECD Digital Economy Taxation Outline, June 22, 2021.