Interest rate “lowest ever”

Acting governor of the Bank of Israel Meir Sokoler cut the interest rate by 0.2 percentage points yesterday, leaving the country with its lowest-ever rate of 3.5 per cent.

Many companies stuck in small business loan fund bottleneck

The chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee Subcommittee for Examining the Effects of the Financial Crisis on Small Businesses, MK Ruhama Avraham (Likud), is calling on the Ministry of Finance to recruit one or more banks to the loan fund for sm