{"id":54859,"date":"2026-04-06T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:21:08","slug":"report-israel-racks-up-15bln-in-costs-from-its-wars-in-iran-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54859\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Israel Racks Up $15bln in Costs from Its Wars in Iran, Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Report:<\/a><\/p>\n

Islam Times – Israel has incurred around $15 billion in costs since the start of its wars against Iran and Lebanon, with the figure expected to rise as fighting continues and the economic repercussions deepen, a Hebrew-language newspaper reported Sunday.The Calcalist business daily said the cost of the ongoing wars with Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has reached around 47 billion shekels, or $15 billion.<\/p>\n

The newspaper said the Israeli War Ministry has requested around 39 billion shekels, equivalent to $12.4 billion, to cover military expenditures, with the amount expected to increase if the war continues or similar rounds of fighting recur.<\/p>\n

According to the daily, the wars have increased the likelihood of a long-term rise in Israel\u2019s security budget rather than the reductions previously expected amid preparations for possible future confrontations with Iran and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

On the civilian side, the paper said around 26,000 compensation claims have been filed for missile-related damage, estimated at between 1 billion and 1.5 billion shekels, or $320 million to $479 million.<\/p>\n

However, it said the main burden stems from a compensation plan for businesses and workers estimated at between 6.5 billion and 7 billion shekels, or $2.1 billion to $2.23 billion.<\/p>\n

The report added that around half a billion shekels, or $160 million, would also be needed to cover workers placed on unpaid leave.<\/p>\n

The newspaper said the Israeli government is likely to push for easing restrictions on economic activity in an effort to limit losses and reduce the war\u2019s impact on the economy.<\/p>\n

The war began after the US and Israel launched a joint offensive on Iran on February 28, triggering weeks of missile exchanges and military escalation.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Israel has expanded its military campaign in Lebanon following a cross-border attack by Hezbollah on March 2, carrying out airstrikes and a ground offensive despite a ceasefire that took effect in November 2024. \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times – Israel has incurred around $15 billion in costs since the start of its wars against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[21729,21727,605,606,592,6975,621,21730,13688,14590,21733,11665,8444,3815,21731,618,3888,21734,595,21728,34,598,37,7223,16156,93,18317,591,21725,21732,7952,5417,11666,12303,10327,5694,596,599,603,21726,1116,3892],"class_list":{"0":"post-54859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-21729","9":"tag-15bln","10":"tag-a","11":"tag-against","12":"tag-and","13":"tag-around","14":"tag-as","15":"tag-billion","16":"tag-continues","17":"tag-costs","18":"tag-deepen","19":"tag-economic","20":"tag-expected","21":"tag-fighting","22":"tag-figure","23":"tag-from","24":"tag-has","25":"tag-hebrew","26":"tag-in","27":"tag-incurred","28":"tag-iran","29":"tag-islam","30":"tag-israel","31":"tag-its","32":"tag-language","33":"tag-lebanon","34":"tag-newspaper","35":"tag-of","36":"tag-racks","37":"tag-repercussions","38":"tag-report","39":"tag-reported","40":"tag-rise","41":"tag-since","42":"tag-start","43":"tag-sunday","44":"tag-the","45":"tag-times","46":"tag-to","47":"tag-up","48":"tag-wars","49":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116360097548510748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}