Members of Blue and White are absent from debate • MK Mickey Zohar of Likud is valid: "They want to make the prime minister financially disabled, he has to function without thinking how he will end the month." Whoever gives the kosher stamp to this corrupt move is a blue and white party ”

The Finance Committee's hearing on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request reached jarring tones Tuesday. During the exchange, MK Mickey Zohar attacked the Likud, saying that "they want to make the prime minister financially disabled. He should function without thinking how the month will end."

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During the discussion, MK Zohar tweeted in his Twitter account: "Left and right, leave the position for a moment. Do you think it makes sense that the Israeli prime minister - the most complex job in the Middle East and perhaps in the entire world - will earn only NIS 17,000 a month? I have no doubt that this is purely a personal pursuit of Netanyahu. "

Leave you left and right, leave the position for a moment.



Do you think it makes sense that the Israeli prime minister - the most complex job in the Middle East and perhaps worldwide - will earn only NIS 17,000 a month?



I have no doubt that this is purely a personal pursuit of Netanyahu.

- Miki Zohar Mickey Zohar (@ zoharm7) June 23, 2020

The chairman of the committee, MK Moshe Gaffney, said at the opening of the discussion: "We are also going to discuss what is written, the benefits. This is our job. We need to deal with this matter. To this day we have discussed the Prime Minister and the President of the State. We passed a bill by MK Miki Levy here, comparing the positions of prime ministers to the presidents of the country. We have held professional discussions, and we have now also tried to reach an agreed professional solution. That is our job. "

MK Mickey Levy from Yesh Atim Talam commented that "Whoever gives the kosher stamp to this corrupt move is a white and blue party whose representatives do not even have the courage to come to the debate. Requests to issue a next order for Benny Gantz and members of Blue and White to reach the committee. To give up everything, the word "substitute" should be removed from the document, if he does not agree - he is lying.

MK Ahmed Tibi of the joint list argued that "the documents submitted should include details of the amounts, we asked for details and not yet received them. It does not convey to the public the true picture. I don't remember tax returns for elected officials. " 

In response, MK Shlomo Qara'i said: "It is important to understand that whoever set this discussion is the Tax Authority, who have decided to collect a retroactive tax unlike any other prime minister in the past. In 1982, an ordinance was amended and it was decided that the state would bear the private dormitory costs of prime ministers and so I propose to invite them here, giving a report on how much the state has paid for the same costs since and see that no prime minister has paid tax on these expenses. "

Earlier this morning, blue-and-white representatives voted to give tax returns to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but not to the other sections. Already, a compromise was reached between the parties last night when it was announced in Israel Today that blue and white representatives would be absent from the vote, but now it seems that they will even support giving the tax benefit to the prime minister. 

Likud members on Tuesday submitted a request to the Knesset Finance Committee to grant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Benny Gantz tax benefits after the tax authority demanded Netanyahu pay retroactively tax on benefits he received during his post as prime minister.

Among other things, the Finance Committee is asked to approve Netanyahu's retroactive tax benefits in a series of expenses that all Likud officials have received over the years, such as an exemption from Netanyahu's request for car use, a previously approved exemption - as the car expenses required for the prime minister's status are particularly expensive. An application was also made for an exemption for any service that does not belong to the personal salary, such as clothing and food exemptions.