The orchestra had lost its main funder. “In June, the Israeli Broadcast Authority announced that it would slash its annual $2.7 million subsidy to the orchestra’s $4.2 million budget by 60 percent. Four years ago, the orchestra skirted financial ruin when its musicians agreed to take a 20 per cent cut in pay. This time, however, the missing chunk would have been too large.” But “the Israeli court ruled July 15 that IBA — in the financial difficulty itself — would have to continue funding the JSO, until additional means from other sources could be secured by the orchetra.”