{"id":509635,"date":"2026-06-25T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509635\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:06:09","slug":"cost-of-israels-wars-since-october-7-nears-205bn-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509635\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Israel&#8217;s wars since October 7 nears $205Bn: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The cost of Israel&#8217;s wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran since 7 October 2023 has reached nearly $205 billion, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The figure was included in a report on Zman Yisrael, the Hebrew-language service of The Times of Israel, which assessed the economic effect of the conflicts on public finances, production losses and US military support. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Citing Bank of Israel data, the report said the cost of the wars to the government has exceeded $118 billion.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Defence spending accounted for around $71.2 billion of the total, while compensation payments reached $9.6 billion, various civilian expenditures stood at $16.7 billion, and interest costs linked to higher public debt amounted to $5.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The report put the value of US weapons, ammunition and military equipment supplied to Israel at around $26 billion.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The economic burden was not limited to public spending, estimating that lost output in the Israeli economy between October 2023 and the end of 2025 reached around $51.9 billion. <\/p>\n<p><a data-link-preview=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/5ae351181754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"relative flex w-full px-4 py-3 flex-col items-start gap-6 rounded bg-[#F1F1F1] border-l-0 transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out box-border mb-4 hover:bg-[#F9F9F9] hover:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] focus:bg-[#F9F9F9] focus:shadow-[0_4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.1),0_-4px_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06),4px_0_6px_-1px_rgba(0,0,0,0.06)] before:content-[&quot;&quot;] before:absolute before:left-0 before:top-0 before:bottom-0 before:w-[3px] before:rounded-l-md before:bg-[#01ABD9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flex justify-center items-center rounded-md !w-20 !h-20 aspect-square flex-shrink-0 sm:rounded md:rounded-md lg:!w-[84px] lg:!h-[84px] lg:rounded xl:rounded-md\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2ec1dde39401f26950a6c49a6a98da8c9c61911719706a22a3886079f94cfdd5.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Unprecedented strain on economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of Israel&#8217;s wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran since 7 October 2023 has reached nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-509635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}