The Bank of Israel left its policy rate on hold again today, at 4.50%, and sounded a bit more hawkish than at its previous meeting despite highlighting possibly quite a large hit to economic activity from US import tariffs. For now, we maintain our forecast for the policy rate to be cut to 4.00% by year-end, but the risks to that forecast probably lie to the upside.
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