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In the midst of an unprecedented and unbudgeted crisis, Treasury officials are raising their hands

In less than three months, the Accountant General resigned, the head of the budget department and the director general of the ministry appointed personally by Katz. Behind the thunderous departures are allegations of trampling on the professional echelon, political decisions and a full stomach for Katz and the government

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• Ministry of Finance

• Turner-Eyal Foundation

• Shaul Meridor

• Roni Hezekiah

• Israel Katz

• Benjamin Netanyahu

Dana Yarkatzi

Sunday, 11 October 2020, 21:58

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The director general of the Ministry of Finance,

, who announced her resignation today (Sunday) after only about six months, is the third senior official in the ministry to do so in the last three months. Apart from Shai BaVad, the previous director general left due to The end of the term of the Minister of Finance Kahlon, the resignation of this short period also announced the Accountant General

, and the head of the Budget Department,

, who left with a stormy slamming door and a scathing letter against the Minister of Finance and government. Ram, but took care to clarify through her associates her opinion on the political conduct of the crisis. The

remaining space in the office was filled by deputies, instead of permanent appointments. Turner-Eyal is currently being replaced by Tax Authority director Eran Yaakov. The budget department is currently headed by Yogev Gardos. A place that previously served as deputy budget chief for macro affairs.

Although Chachal Hezekiah announced his resignation in July, he will continue to fill the position until the end of the month.

Only on Friday was he replaced by Yahli Rotenberg, who in recent years has served as Bezeq Group's CFO. Meridor resigned about a month later, at the end of August, and Turner's retirement announcement came about a month and a half later, and was already expected.

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Her relationship with the minister deteriorated.

Turner-Eyal (Photo: Yonatan Zindel, Flash 90)

Although the accountant announced his resignation in a laconic letter, without direct accusations against any factor, and explained that he had been exhausted, behind the scenes they knew to tell that Hezekiah felt there was no point in continuing in the job, as long as the ministry's professional rank was not "counted".

Accountant General is the one who decides what will be the framework for the expenditure of each ministry. In the absence of an annual budget, and in the midst of a crisis corona, is forced each time to find the source of budgetary expenditures necessary, whether it is in education, security, health or any other office.

Letter of resignation The document was the latest link in a series of exchanges of blows in the media and at government meetings between Finance Minister Israel Katz and Meridor, over how decisions were made in the ministry during the Corona period. According to sources in the Ministry of Finance, at government meetings Katz silenced Meridor whenever he wanted to express his views.

Left slamming a door.

Meridor (Photo: Yonatan Zindel, Flash 90)

In the same letter of resignation he sent to Katz, Meridor wrote that "in recent months and weeks, the ability to perform my duties has become impossible."

He even attacked Katz personally and claimed: "You do not allow me and many other public servants in the Ministry of Finance and other ministries to do our job."

Meridor accused Katz of "attempts to change budget estimates in order to produce fictitious sources for the purpose of allocating additional budgets."

"After crossing more and more red lines, and crushing elementary rules of budget conduct and proper economy - I decided that I could no longer be part of the system and give legitimacy to a series of wrong decisions," Meridor claimed.

"I cannot give a hand to the bad conduct that has taken place in recent months, for which all Israeli citizens will pay a heavy price in the coming years," he added.

He said, "The decision-making processes are influenced by narrow and short-term interests, along with the silencing of the professional echelon, blatant disregard for staff work, the trampling of tools and budgetary rules that have been at the feet of Israeli economic managers for many decades."

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The person who tried to defend Meridor was the director general of finance, Turner-Eyal, who subsequently received harsh criticism from the minister, and since then relations between the two have deteriorated. Her opinion was not heard in government meetings, For the other two executives, Turner-Eyal is a personal appointment of the finance minister: he brought her from the Ministry of Transportation, where she served as CEO, while the two got along well and promoted various projects together.

However, sources in the Ministry of Finance emphasized that the ministry is not similar to the Ministry of Transportation, especially at a time when the ministry is considered the most significant of all the ministries.

A source who spoke with Finance Ministry Director General Keren Turner in recent days, explained that she felt frustrated by the conduct of the government. "Keren tried to give it a chance.

But she saw that there was no staff work in the government.

no budget.

There are no professional decisions.

Reached her boiling point and she decided to resign. "

" She tried to work with him (with Katz - some general) last six months it did not work. Not heard of it. After all her interview was a blast. She felt insignificant and it does not bring herself "It was all political decisions, humiliating the professional echelon," said sources close to her.

Turner-Eyal came to Katz and informed him that she was interested in leaving, and Katz even insisted on her staying.

The finance minister's office said that according to the summary of the two, they keep Eyal's dignity, do not want to talk bad about her and wish her success.

The connecting thread: the budget crisis

Both Turner-Eyal and Meridor felt that the office's conduct during the Corona period was due solely to political considerations, and was done without professional considerations, while trampling on the professional echelon.

The connecting thread between the three resignations is the lack of a cohesive annual budget for the state.

According to the law extending the budget approval deadline, by December 23 the government must pass the 2020 budget, even though it will only remain one week for that year, and if not - the Knesset will be dispersed.

There is disagreement between Blue and White and the Likud over whether the budget will be approved jointly with the budget for 2021, or split into two different budgets.

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Behind the scenes they knew to tell that Hezekiah felt there was no point in continuing.

Hezekiah (Photo: Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)

Shortly after Turner-Eyal's resignation announcement, Katz announced that the state budget for 2021 and the arrangement laws would be submitted to the government for approval in December, and that staff work in the Treasury would begin soon.

The announcement does not really resolve the conflict between the two parties, since if the budget is submitted to the government only during the month of December, it will reach the Knesset for approval only in January or February.

In blue and white, they demanded that the budget for 2021 be approved before the beginning of next year, which is unlikely to happen, even in accordance with the schedules published earlier today by Katz.

Netanyahu, on the other hand, has so far preferred to pass a short-term budget, arguing that due to the crisis it is not possible to predict what the state's revenues will be, and therefore it will not be professional to determine the various ministry expenses.

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