The masses plan to demonstrate on Tuesday morning at Elyakim interchange for failure to transfer budget approved by government and lack of five-year plan for development

• Crowds are expected to show up at the Elyakim interchange

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Protest in the Druze and Circassian public is rising. Tomorrow at 9:00 am, a mass demonstration at Elyakim interchange is expected against the backdrop of the village authorities' fight against a non-budget transfer approved by the government in January 2020, the absence of a five-year plan for budgeting and development, a reduction in balance grants, the National Law and the Kaminitz Law. In addition, studies in all educational institutions in their communities are disabled.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Treasury - You betrayed us!", Today the chairman of the forum of Druze and Circassian chiefs, Jabar Hamod, said in a heated debate on the Knesset Finance Committee. "The government approved an interim budget of NIS 200 million, which was due Urgently to the Druze and Circassian communities. We didn't consider it easy! This is a government decision, and it is without coverage, ”he added.

Dr. Joseph Dresnin, chief executive of the Ministry of Regional Cooperation, said in a Finance Committee hearing: "The Budget Department is moving us around the little finger and we will do everything to fight it. Not only the 200 million had to go but beyond."

Finance Committee Chairman MK Oded Forer responded: "These exercises, in which the government sends the Druze and Circassian heads from office to office to get the government approved budget - cannot continue. I will speak today with the Finance Minister and the Budget Commissioner to That the money be flowed. "