Politics and Knesset
Uzi Dayan tells fellow Likud members that such a move may be necessary, even though it could lead to the fall of the government.
Allocations include $880 million for defense, $264 million for the disabled, and funding for education and aliyah programs.
The planned move was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but will get underway with the expected arrival of an Israeli ambassador, says Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales Banegas.
Shaul Meridor, who resigned this week as head of the Finance Ministry’s Budget Department, accuses Minister Israel Katz of promoting a fiscal policy that “breaks every possible norm in the budgetary world.”
Israeli Finance Minister Israel Katz charges Budget Deptartment head Shaul Meridor of politically motivated attempts to sabotage government policy.
According to the prime minister, the extension bill allowed for the “immediate flow of money for the opening of the school year, assistance to the Israeli people, health and in all areas.”
The budget bill got the go-ahead in a last-moment rush of parliamentary activity after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his support for it in the name of “national responsibility.”
The government will fall on Monday at midnight if a bill is not passed by then to extend the budget bill deadline.
Blue and White balks after Likud attaches yeshivah funding, “flexibility” conditions to the budget bill, which must be passed by Aug. 25 to prevent the government from falling.
A larger Israeli delegation is said to have been delayed due to disputes over its composition, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry looking for a greater role.
Welcoming the move, Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi calls on all European countries to follow suit.
In rare TV interview, Sara Netanyahu says protesters “go into great detail about how they plan to kill us, how they will dismember my children. Why didn’t I hear anyone condemn that?”
