The Bank of Israel's Composite State of the Economy Index for November 2018 increased by 0.32 percent, "attesting to continued solid expansion of the economy."
The bank said the index was positively impacted by the increase in consumer goods imports and by the increase in the import of inputs in November, as well as by increases in industrial production, in retail trade revenue, and in services revenue in October. In contrast, the declines in goods exports and in the job vacancy rate in November moderated the Index’s rate of growth.