Israel’s key lending rate will be cut by 0.5 percent next month, the country’s central bank announced on Monday.
The Bank of Israel’s lending rate now stands at 6.5%.
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Israel’s Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says the rate must be cut more sharply.
He says the country has the highest interest rates in the West.
He says the present level is strangling the economy.