The faction unanimously decided to freeze the Knesset's automatic salary update for 2020 • Meaning: Each MK will donate the supplement, NIS 1,300, to the nonprofit of his choice

• Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun

The Blue and White faction has unanimously decided to freeze the Knesset's automatic salary update for 2020. The meaning: Each member of the Knesset will donate the monthly addition, which is about NIS 1,300, to the nonprofit he chooses, Israel Today said.

MK Benny Gantz's list will waive the salary increase, which will be updated in January, during the election period. Activities for people with disabilities, and the Israeli Trauma Coalition - which works to assist the communities of the Gaza and the South.

The person who led the move in the past is Chairman of the Future, MK Yair Lapid. Bish Futor has been donating or giving up the addition since 2015, even before the union with Israel's resilience and the Talmud, and is now joined by the other faction members.

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MK Yael German, who was among the initiators of the move, told "Israel Today" that "we decided that each of the faction members would choose the important association for him and donate the salary increase to her. This is how we have behaved in the future since 2015 and it is certainly appropriate to continue this in the current period as well. However, in my opinion, the best solution is for an external, professional and neutral committee to decide the level of wages of Knesset members. "

Chairman of the Blue and White faction MK Avi Nissenkorn said: "We have agreed, all members of the faction, not to receive extra salary during the period when the Knesset is inactive.