JERUSALEM (AP) -- One of Israel's top economists on Monday withdrew his candidacy as head of the central bank over an old shoplifting case. The incident happened in a Hong Kong airport seven years ago ...

JACOB FRENKEL: It was about 18 percent and it was sitting there for a while. Large influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, which meant a huge change in the labor force of Israel, with ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice for the next Bank of Israel governor has withdrawn his candidacy for the post, after an investigation was opened into an alleged 2006 shoplifting affair at ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Bank of Israel Governor Jacob Frenkel was reappointed to the position. The naming of Frenkel, who held the post from 1991 to 2000, was announced Sunday by Prime Minister ...

The Tayyip Erdogan-Shimon Peres rumble last night was partly about Gaza. But it was also about the limitations of panel moderation at Davos. I don’t mean to single out David Ignatius, whose failure to ...

A trade war between the U.S. and China represents the greatest threat to the world economy, the chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase International said on Friday. An escalating trade tussle between the world ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) – The candidate named to become the new governor of Israel's central bank, Jacob Frenkel, said Monday he was rejecting the post after an investigation against him on a shoplifting ...

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JERUSALEM (AFP) – JP Morgan Chase International chairman Jacob Frenkel was nominated on Sunday to be the next governor of the Israeli central bank, returning to a post he held from 1991 to 2000.

Jacob Frenkel, an inflation hawk who was Bank of Israel governor in the 1990s, will be returning to the helm of the central bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid said ...