Despite the government’s present-day troubles, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the funds will sooner or later be handed.


As the govt coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman announced last night time that he is suspending discussions on the 2023 budget. He explained to Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the prime minister and we resolved that for the instant we are suspending the budget discussions in get to get arranged. We are freezing the discussions as a accountable federal government, and we will finish the summer season session and we will manage ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition endured in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the very first reading through of the invoice to increase the minimal wage to NIS 40 for every hour. “We agreed (to postpone the funds discussions) mainly because the vote went against the Committee for Legislative Matters. Everyone will have to be dependable in what they are doing. I am guaranteed that the funds will pass later and it will be a great spending plan that is not populist.”

The defeat in excess of the minimal wage payments was just a single of a amount of defeats inflicted on the federal government coalition in the Knesset this week. It commenced with the failure to move the law regulating the authorized situation for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and continued with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Religious Affairs, thanks to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who left the coalition two months in the past and voted towards the govt for the first time.

Revealed by Globes, Israel business enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 9, 2022.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photograph: Yossi Zamir