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Irrespective of the government’s present-day complications, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the finances will finally be passed.


As the government coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman declared final night that he is postponing discussions on the 2023 budget. He explained to Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the prime minister and we made the decision that for the minute we are suspending the budget conversations in buy to get organized. We are freezing the discussions as a accountable authorities, and we will finish the summer months session and we will manage ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition experienced in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the very first studying of the bill to elevate the minimal wage to NIS 40 per hour. “We agreed (to postpone the spending plan conversations) because the vote went against the Committee for Legislative Issues. Every person will have to be responsible in what they are executing. I am sure that the spending plan will move later and it will be a excellent price range that is not populist.”

The defeat around the minimal wage expenditures was just one particular of a quantity of defeats inflicted on the federal government coalition in the Knesset this 7 days. It started with the failure to move the regulation regulating the legal condition for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and ongoing with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Religious Affairs, due to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who still left the coalition two months back and voted versus the authorities for the 1st time.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photo: Yossi Zamir