Inspite of the government’s recent troubles, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman insists the funds will eventually be passed.


As the authorities coalition totters on the brink of collapse, Israel’s Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman declared last night time that he is suspending conversations on the 2023 finances. He informed Channel 12 Information, “I spoke with the key minister and we resolved that for the moment we are suspending the price range discussions in order to get organized. We are freezing the conversations as a responsible govt, and we will close the summer time session and we will arrange ourselves.

Liberman spoke about the defeat that the coalition endured in the Knesset yesterday on the passing of the to start with looking at of the invoice to raise the least wage to NIS 40 per hour. “We agreed (to postpone the price range discussions) due to the fact the vote went in opposition to the Committee for Legislative Matters. Every person need to be responsible in what they are carrying out. I am guaranteed that the funds will pass later and it will be a superior funds that is not populist.”

The defeat in excess of the minimum amount wage charges was just a single of a quantity of defeats inflicted on the authorities coalition in the Knesset this 7 days. It began with the failure to move the regulation regulating the lawful problem 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 remaining the coalition two months back and voted versus the govt for the initial time.

Revealed by Globes, Israel organization news – en.globes.co.il – on June 9, 2022.

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Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman Photograph: Yossi Zamir