{"id":266696,"date":"2025-11-16T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266696\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:31:09","slug":"after-wartime-economic-blues-israel-posts-explosive-12-4-growth-in-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266696\/","title":{"rendered":"After wartime economic blues, Israel posts explosive 12.4% growth in third quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s economy surged at an annualized rate of 12.4% in the third quarter of 2025, rebounding strongly from a <a id=\"rJoBMhqhDx11x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/business\/article\/hjskmbjkel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3.5% contraction in the previous quarter<\/a>, which had been hit hard by the war with Iran, according to data released Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Business sector output rose even more sharply, expanding by 14.9% between July and September.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp rebound was largely attributed to the depth of the previous quarter\u2019s downturn, with all major indicators showing significant gains.<\/p>\n<p>Private consumption, which has driven Israel\u2019s recent growth, jumped by 23.0%, while investment in fixed assets soared by 36.9% \u2014 a rare increase in scope. Exports of goods and services rose by 18.9%, despite a drop in the dollar and euro exchange rates that typically reduce export profitability. Non-defense imports climbed 38.6%, marking the strongest quarterly increase.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, public consumption rose by just 4.4%, reflecting limited increases in civilian government spending even after the war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Year over year, Israel\u2019s gross domestic product rose by 3.5% in the third quarter. Business sector GDP was up 3.6%. Investment in fixed assets rose 9.4%, exports climbed 6.6% and imports increased 11.0%. Public consumption grew by 4.0%, while private consumption edged up 3.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s economy surged at an annualized rate of 12.4% in the third quarter of 2025, rebounding strongly from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-266696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}