American credit rating agency Fitch Ratings economists have decided to lower Israel's credit rating, given the difficulties the country is facing.
The company's detailed report is expected to be published in about three weeks © Mena Today
American credit rating agency Fitch Ratings economists have decided to lower Israel's credit rating, given the difficulties the country is facing.
Israel's Accountant General Yali Rothenberg is visiting London to hold meetings with the company's economists, in which he will try to convince them to avoid the reduction at this stage.
The company's detailed report is expected to be published in about three weeks, following the international rating agency Moody's downgraded Israel's credit rating to A2 for the first time two weeks ago.
A Lebanese official denied on Thursday a Reuters report that Beirut had agreed with Israel to a shortlist of countries that could send troops to Lebanon to verify the disarmament of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and said it was following up on the issue with Washington.
Israel won't withdraw from southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed, the defence minister said on Thursday, qualifying remarks he made a day earlier that had suggested Israeli forces would occupy the territory indefinitely and drew U.S. criticism.
Israeli troops clashed with Jewish settlers on Wednesday while trying to disperse them from a West Bank outpost they set up directly in front of Palestinian homes, and later withdrew from the area after failing to clear the settlers, witnesses said.
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