The Ministerial Committee on the Cost of Living will meet today for the first time since September. The ministers are expected to discuss Economy Minister Nir Barkat's reform.
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter demands that the committee leave out of the discussion all agricultural products and their derivatives. If the demand is met, then a long line of significant food products with critical nutritional value will remain outside the reform and their prices will not be reduced. According to Dicher, "If the European standard is established as a binding standard in Israel, the local farmers should also be allowed to line up accordingly"