Regardless of the government’s present-day issues, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the price range will eventually be passed.


As the governing administration coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman announced final evening that he is suspending discussions on the 2023 budget. He instructed Channel 12 News, “I spoke with the key minister and we determined that for the second we are postponing the spending budget discussions in purchase to get structured. We are freezing the conversations as a liable government, and we will close 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 reading through of the monthly bill to raise the minimum amount wage to NIS 40 for every hour. “We agreed (to postpone the budget conversations) since the vote went from the Committee for Legislative Matters. All people will have to be accountable in what they are executing. I am certain that the finances will move later and it will be a excellent price range that is not populist.”

The defeat over the least wage costs was just 1 of a quantity of defeats inflicted on the federal government coalition in the Knesset this 7 days. It began with the failure to move the legislation regulating the authorized situation for Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria and ongoing with the failure to approve Matan Kahana as Minister for Spiritual Affairs, due to the opposition of MK Idit Silman, the rebel Yamina MK who still left the coalition two months in the past and voted from the federal government for the initial time.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Picture: Yossi Zamir