Tax authority official stirs debate with direct replies on X

Nili Ben-Tovim, a department head at the Tax Authority, is drawing attention after directly responding to critics regarding a new tax initiative on social media.

Nili Ben-Tovim, head of the Research and Policy Division at the Israel Tax Authority, has become the subject of intense social media discourse after personally responding to a post by journalist Haim Levinson on X. Levinson criticized the Tax Authority's new initiative to impose a tax of up to 100,000 shekels on every private aircraft departing Israel, and Ben-Tovim replied that she found the measure reasonable. This was reported by Globes and ynet. The response garnered hundreds of replies and hundreds of thousands of views. Sources within the Tax Authority described Ben-Tovim as an unconventional figure within the government. Further details have not yet been released.