{"id":600447,"date":"2026-08-30T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/600447\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:54:11","slug":"israel-gasoline-price-rises-to-record-8-25-shekels-per-liter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/600447\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel gasoline price rises to record 8.25 shekels per liter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surcharge for full-service fueling will rise by one agora to 26 agorot per liter, including VAT.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gelleryOpener\" aria-label=\"open article gallery\" data-image-id=\"ArticleImageData.S1eWYiIbdMl\" id=\"image_ArticleImageData.S1eWYiIbdMl\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.S1eWYiIbdMl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rJ1Et5ht11l_0_0_3000_2000_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05ea \u05d3\u05dc\u05e7 \u05d1\u05ea\u05dc \u05d0\u05d1\u05d9\u05d1\" title=\"Photo: Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.S1eWYiIbdMl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rJ1Et5ht11l_0_0_3000_2000_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05ea\u05d7\u05e0\u05ea \u05d3\u05dc\u05e7 \u05d1\u05ea\u05dc \u05d0\u05d1\u05d9\u05d1\" title=\"Photo: Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Bat-Sheva Abuhatzira, head of the Fuel and Gas Administration at the Energy and Infrastructure Ministry, said several factors contributed to the increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne factor was the rise in gasoline prices on the international market, which increased by about 6%,\u201d she said. \u201cThis increase was partially offset by a roughly 3% decline in the dollar exchange rate. Overall, changes in international gasoline prices and the dollar exchange rate led to an increase of about 10 agorot per liter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tax Authority also updated the excise tax component in line with the index as part of a periodic adjustment, adding about 5 agorot per liter. A semiannual update to the marketing margin added another agora.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the changes resulted in the 16-agorot increase for September, Abuhatzira said.<\/p>\n<p>The full-service surcharge will also rise by one agora, from 25 to 26 agorot per liter, following an adjustment linked to the increase in Israel\u2019s minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s monthly fuel-price formula is based in part on the dollar exchange rate and petroleum-product prices in the Mediterranean basin.<\/p>\n<p>The new price matches the all-time record for a liter of 95-octane gasoline, first reached in September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, amid growing public anger a year after Israel\u2019s 2011 social-justice protests, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed reducing fuel taxes to lower prices at gas stations.<\/p>\n<p>The tax discount was later canceled, before being reinstated by then-Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman in the summer of 2022, when gasoline again climbed above 8 shekels per liter and reached 8.08 shekels.<\/p>\n<p>That fuel-tax subsidy was abolished at the beginning of 2024 by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in part because of the widening budget deficit following the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The surcharge for full-service fueling will rise by one agora to 26 agorot per liter, including VAT. 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