Electricity bill

Possibly saving NIS 2 billion: Government announces new electricity reform

The reform, set to take effect on July 25, with allow Israeli consumers to choose which supplier to purchase electricity from.

 Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Eli Cohen
 View of the Power Station in Hadera, on Janury 27, 2018.

Price of electricity in Israel to rise 2.6% in February

Israel Electric Corporation

Israel Electric Company prepares for winter, works to fix wartime damage

 Israelis protest against the soaring housing prices in Tel Aviv and cost of living, on July 2, 2022.

Netanyahu must keep promise to lower cost of living in Israel - editorial


Israel sees spike in solar energy system sales amid electricity price spike

The increase in electricity rates in 2022 led to an 18% increase in the installation of solar energy systems on the roofs of private houses, with 4,500 systems installed in the past year.

 The system can be powered using solar and wind energy - providing off-grid operation.

Israel Electric Company to spread debts without interest for 1 more day

The debts of Israel Electric Company customers jumped to half a billion shekels.

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

What is Israel's next election about? The cost of living - comment

The reason the current state won't change is that the government, the retailers, the hoteliers, and the restauranteurs can get away with it.

 Milk for sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022.

Gantz mulling hooking up illegal Palestinian homes to national grid

Many Jewish outposts in the West Bank would fit the criteria set in the new Electricity Law.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett sits at the government table in the Knesset plenum with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Might Bennett go the way of Sharon, Olmert and Livni?

Arab leaders voice their protest as KKL-JNF plants trees in Negev

Disputed land claimed to belong to a Bedouin family in the Negev has been in the spotlight due to KKL-JNF's act to plant trees on it.

 Ra'am head Mansour Abbas at the Knesset plenum, December 15, 2021.

Electricity Law brings Israel's institutions to the brink of collapse - opinion

The legislative process was one of the most brutal, nondemocratic, politicized processes in Knesset history and the consequences for the State of Israel will be irrevocable.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett gets involved in the sharp debate over the Electricity Law on Wednesday in the Knesset plenum.

Bennett confronts opposition as controversial electricity bill passes into law

Netanyahu: Black day for democracy and Zionism

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yells and points at members of the opposition after the electricity bill is passed, January 2022