Ten days to elections: Lapid raises concern about military operation in Iran

Ten days before the elections, a column in Maariv criticizes the election economy and notes that Yair Lapid raised concern about a military operation in Iran. The article reviews the distribution of government benefits, the credit card club war, and a 0.5% drop in the September price index with an annual inflation rate of 1.6%.

Ten days before the elections in Israel, an opinion column by Yehuda Sharoni in Maariv reviews the election economy. The headline notes that Yair Lapid raised concern about a military operation in Iran, but the topic is not developed in the body of the article. Sharoni criticizes the distribution of economic benefits by the government, such as regulating the debts of public housing tenants, and claims it is a fraud and distraction from the cost of living. He mentions the credit card club war between FLY CARD (El Al and Isracard) and FLY ALL (Cal), which includes aggressive campaigns. The consumer price index for September fell by 0.5%, and the annual inflation rate rose to 1.6%. Housing prices fell by 0.6%. In the US, the price index rose by 0.6% to 3.7% annually, which raised the dollar exchange rate to 3.1 shekels. The column ends with a warning about the impact of global inflation on the Israeli economy.