About

ShekelTech is written by Daniel Skiba, an economist working in Israeli municipal finance. The aim: explain what the official numbers say, without inflated headlines.

How the analysis is written

1. An official figure is released. The Central Bureau of Statistics, the Bank of Israel, the Ministry of Finance or other authoritative research. Each piece says what prompted it.
2. Research and draft. AI tools gather the data, compare it with earlier periods and prepare a draft.
3. Review and approval. I read every draft, check the numbers against the source and approve it. Nothing goes on the site without that approval.
4. Corrections. If an error is found or a figure is revised, the piece is updated and the update date is shown at the top.

Rules

• Every factual claim links to an entry in the source list.
• The bottom line comes first, not last.
• Forecasts are labelled as forecasts, with the assumptions behind them.