We believe (the government) should ... shift spending from more investment-oriented to consumption-oriented.

Monetary policy could in the short run focus on absorbing some of the excess liquidity to reduce the risk of excessive credit growth.

The debt has been formed mainly because of mismatches for years between expenditure assignments and revenues of local governments.

Domestic demand is now driving growth.

We expect most of the growth will come from the domestic side as has already happened over the last quarter of 2005.

The benefit package put forth by the Israeli government was part of the equation. This is a good investment for Intel and for the state of Israel.