On video: The government approved the state budget for 2024 15.01.2024/Video (upload): Omer Miron / L.A.M., Sound: Ben Peretz / L.A.M.
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Just don't call it coalition funds!/Government Press Office, Haim Tsekh
Sometimes it is difficult to know what the government's priorities are: the prime minister says he is against the settlement in Gaza, but his closest supporters are crying out for its renewal.
Israel approves an outline for the release of the abductees in exchange for a suspension of hostilities, but the Prime Minister's office denies it.
The supporters of the far-right government are protesting together with the families of those kidnapped in the past in Kerem Shalom to prevent the entry of trucks with goods, which the government in which their elected members have approved and committed to bring in - and this is only a partial list of the contradictions, because sometimes the contradictions exist in the words of the very same party.
The Prime Minister, for example, explained to the media that the demonstrations of the families of the abductees are hardening the positions of Hamas.
Let's assume for a moment that every word is true: Hamas sees the importance Israeli society attaches to the abductees - and adds another condition to the list.
The problem is that if this line of thought is followed, why does the prime minister (and other senior officials in his government) announce from every stage that one of the two main goals of the war is the release of the kidnapped?
After all, logic says that it should have been said on the first day of the war, even before it was known from the numbers, something like: "To me they are all as important as the dead, we will not stop the fighting even if they promise us to return them all."
Extreme right?
But if you expressed interest in the abductees, in your opinion, hardens Sinwar's heart, on the contrary - be the sophisticated one and show a marked lack of interest in the subject!
Able?
Because if not, why do you blame the families who do as much as they can for their loved ones?
We heard his opinion on a semi-formal outline for the release of the abductees after half a minute.
He actually accepts the fact that his office's budget is being cut.
Minister of Education/Uri Sela
Because in the meantime we have no way of knowing what Sinwar really thinks (although News 12 added to the list of his items that were found, along with the shoes, a note of instructions to the Palestinian media, it is good that it is not claimed to be his handwriting), or what the Netanyahu government thinks about the war, the abductees, the day after And all sorts of little things, we have nothing but to examine it according to the whole thing - what is done on the ground.
There, at least in the economic arena, some of the issues on the government's agenda become clear: here are places where sharp cuts will be applied, to help the war effort: state education - that is, the education system relevant to all Israeli children, which may face a cut of NIS 800 million.
Yes, more than half a billion shekels (together) will be lost in areas such as welfare and higher education, that is - not only will it be even more difficult to be poor in Israel, those who seek to escape the cycle of poverty through studies, from school to the academy, will find that their conditions have greatly deteriorated (those who have the money in his parents' pockets, will work out of course).
The most serious cut, currently NIS 2 billion, will be absorbed by the program to fight crime in Arab society.
This is a classic dream.
Apparently this cut will be accepted with understanding by the "Bays", here - they are taking money from the Arabs.
In fact, it will lead to the strengthening of crime in the sector in such a way that it will go far beyond its borders - the day will not be far and the assassinations will also "trickle down" to innocents in the Jewish public.
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There will be those who will surely say that there is nothing to be done, wars cost money - and although the Prime Minister in his voice claimed "there is enough for both this and that" - and then performed a spectacular U-turn when he claimed that he referred to the 2023 budget at all and not to the 2024 budget (and I thought to Tomi that money missing from the state coffers was not Really impressed by the fact that December 31 turned into January 1, but let's face it, you have to cut the meat.
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So let's check where the meat is not cut: for example, an addition of more than 600 million shekels for ultra-Orthodox education and another such amount for the pensions of the orphans.
Every time money transfers to the ultra-orthodox public are blocked, they cry out for discrimination.
There are only two answers to this: First, as long as discrimination exists in the Jewish Community, there is no reason why it should not exist elsewhere as well (it is possible to exempt ultra-Orthodox and Arabs from conscription, in exchange for a similar period of time in mandatory national service - there is a lack of sanitation workers in hospitals, a lack of firefighters, Policemen and missing persons also work in construction and agriculture - there will be enough room for those who do not want to fight their brothers or for those who are afraid that proximity to young female soldiers will lead them to change their faith)
. While the children of those who evaded even regular service will receive more - but will no longer learn science, English and mathematics, which are so necessary for the State of Israel? You decided to add? Great - why not at least make it conditional on learning some necessary subjects?
Miri Regev.
When she said that her stomach would not hurt over battered women, veterans, the elderly and Holocaust survivors, we thought it was just an extreme way to return to power.
It turns out that this is also the policy behind the construction of the budget/Reuven Castro
What is "Jewish identity"?
Who else will benefit from additional allocations of hundreds of millions of shekels (in aggregate)?
Outposts in the territories of Judea and Samaria (unless it is decided in the meantime to establish settlements in Gaza), with an emphasis on the illegal ones.
Here too: either you will become legal or you will prevent budgeting - it is not possible for a state to officially and openly budget for an activity that is defined as illegal... and alongside the illegal settlement will also confuse the strengthening of Jewish identity.
It will be made clear right away: I am in favor of strengthening Jewish identity, but on the condition that you first explain to me what that means.
Want to strengthen Jewish identity?
Let's find out first what Judaism is.
As long as it is not clear exactly what that elusive Jewish identity is, then all the money directed to this channel is propaganda for the right-wing parties.
By way of propaganda, it turns out that since the coalition recognized the fact that the public is not sympathetic, to say the least, to the term "coalition funds", they are making every effort to change the definitions, so that all the scammers will be eliminated under sections that will have a washed-up name.
In moments like these, the responsive image of Minister Dodi Amsalem comes to mind: at least he doesn't tell us it's raining - and he doesn't hide his intentions to appoint close associates to senior positions in unimportant boards or unnecessary offices, behind nice words like "Jewish identity".
If we were to summarize his agenda in one sentence, then it would be: the moneymakers have stolen enough, now it's my turn.
And if we were to summarize the changes, then those who will take the hits as a result of the cuts in the new budget are the weak strata (in the case of cuts in the welfare budgets, the reference is to the hits (literally and not figuratively).
When Miri Regev said at the time that she would not feel stomach aches neither for beaten women nor for Holocaust survivors and the elderly, we thought that this was just a tactic to return to power, not that this would be the declared policy even after the establishment of the government!
Who else will kidnap? Soldiers who will return home from long reserve service and find out that the fact that they were not fired (by the way: since the beginning of the war there has been an 8-fold increase in the number of requests for dismissal of reservists. Crazy) does not mean that the position or project for which they worked hard for years, was given after his reserve service was shorter (if at all), or that their business Keres - because even in good times it is difficult to be independent in the State of Israel.
The evacuees from the northern and southern settlements who will be added to live, entire families, in hotel rooms (or forced to return to their homes even though it is not clear whether they are safe) will be harmed. Those who served, donated, volunteered and held the State of Israel will be harmed When he entered the vacuum left behind by the government that simply disappeared from the area (especially in the first weeks).
The IDF soldiers in Gaza. Soon they will return to the position they took, the business that collapsed and the tuition fees that skyrocketed, as thanks for going under the stretcher/IDF spokesman
Stretcher journey without deployment
As stated in the introduction, it is sometimes difficult to know what the Israeli government is thinking when it decides this way and says otherwise (or vice versa), but as for what it does in the dark?
God forbid.
Wait, but why in the dark - after all, the budget is placed on the Knesset table with complete transparency, right?
So that's it - it's only apparent (and for the avoidance of doubt, this is the fault of all Israeli governments for generations), when a document of thousands of clauses, compiled by hundreds of officials over dozens of days, is placed on the desk of those who are told to approve or reject it within a few hours (in the case of a filibuster, a few days), there is no way that any of the decision-makers had time to review it, let alone understand, all of its sections.
What to do?
Vote according to the party inclination.
Yes, yes, this is how the tax money of the residents of the State of Israel is distributed.
I also won't pretend to state that I read all the sections (even though some are still under discussion) and understood the budget in its entirety, but sometimes you don't have to read the words of the third stanza to rhyme the catchy chorus.
What do the words in the chorus mean?
Well, they broadcast to everyone who presented himself "under the stretcher", with or without quotation marks:
My dear, you have indeed carried the stretcher for more than a hundred days, but someone else will get the beret and the spread
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