{"id":8456,"date":"2025-09-07T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8456\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:58:16","slug":"israels-economy-defies-the-odds-and-gives-the-government-cover-to-drag-out-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8456\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Economy Defies the Odds, and Gives the Government Cover to Drag Out the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR dUvWpK hRLVFh idISHb\">Late last month a few big brains gathered in a Tel Aviv office building in order to try to figure out the secret of the Israeli economy&#8217;s resilience during the longest and costliest war in the country&#8217;s history. How is it possible that the economy is solid, even though the war has already cost more than 200 billion shekels (over $60 billion) in direct expenditures, to which hundreds of billions more will have to be added in the years ahead to cover a soaring defense budget and to service debts? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late last month a few big brains gathered in a Tel Aviv office building in order to try&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,10897,10896,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-israel-economy","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}