Budget for the 23rd Knesset Election Commission jumped 42%, to NIS 402 million • In addition, employers in the economy spent NIS 7.5 billion in salary payments to workers who were absent from work during the Sabbath days • All the numbers

The amount of money that the Israeli government has spent from the budget for three election campaigns since November 2018 is NIS 2.4 billion.

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The budget for the 23rd Knesset Election Commission jumped 42 percent in one year. In February, the Central Election Commission approved a budget increase of NIS 66 million to NIS 402 million. And last week, the finance committee approved the request.

Remember, in the 22nd Knesset, the budget available to the Election Commission was NIS 329 million and at the end of the procedure it would be NIS 336 million, while the budget for the 21st Knesset was NIS 283 million.

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In addition, employers in the economy spent NIS 7.5 billion in salary payments to workers who were absent from work during the three days of sabbatical - salary payments that came out of employers' pockets, and at their expense, for work and produce they did not receive. Moreover, it is also a loss of product totaling NIS 9 billion, NIS 3 billion for one election round.

The price of democracy will translate into a total of NIS 3.2 billion in party and budget financing and a central election campaign. And employers' payments will pay NIS 10 billion in salary payments. The loss of GDP will amount to NIS 12 billion, close to the expected loss of GDP from the Corona expansion.

And on the way, between Day 1 and Day 3, all parties increased the Finance Unit to MK from NIS 1.37 million on Sunday to the 21st Knesset, to NIS 1.84 million on Tuesday to the 23rd Knesset.