The purpose of this decision is to keep the tradable bonds market from continuing to dry up, together with the savings and credit channels based on it, including the provident funds and the mortgage market. 2.
Concluding the process of making the NIS a convertible currency by abolishing the last vestige of foreign-currency control: this refers to the restriction preventing the provident funds, insurance companies, and pension funds from investing more than 5 percent of their asset portfolios abroad or in foreign currency.