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Ahead of the Knesset vote: The government convenes to discuss the budget
The weekly cabinet meeting will be dedicated to discussing the Ministry of Finance's proposal for the state budget for 2022-2021, as well as the Arrangements Law that includes the major reforms that the Bennett-Lapid government will try to promote in the next two years.
The approval of the government is expected to pass easily, with the big challenge of the narrow coalition being the approval of the budget in the Knesset
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Sunday, 01 August 2021, 10:29 Updated: 10:51
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Government meeting on the state budget and the Arrangements Law
The government will convene this morning (Sunday) at 11:00 for the weekly meeting, which will be devoted entirely to discussing the Ministry of Finance's proposal for the state budget for 2022-2021, as well as the arrangements law, which includes all major reforms the Bennett-Lapid government seeks to promote in the next two years.
This, in view of the large gaps that still remain in front of a large part of the offices.
The end of the meeting is expected tomorrow morning, and it may even be extended by a few days - until the budget goes up for approval and voting.
At the same time, the government's approval is expected to pass easily, with the coalition's biggest challenge being approving the Knesset's budget by November, with a narrow majority of 61 MKs.
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The main obstacle is the health budget.
Lapid and Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Miriam Elster)
Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Oded Forer said before the cabinet meeting, against the background of the demonstrations on agricultural reform: "We are on a very important day to march agriculture forward, and jump it to the forefront of global agricultural production, including opening the market to competition. Competition is good for farmers, we will defend them." .
"Anyone who goes into the details of the reform and learns what is given to farmers supports the reform," Forer argued.
"The farmers themselves want it too, there is only an egg monopoly event here that wants to continue to be a monopoly. It needs to be dismantled, it is a method that is not suitable for the 21st century.
"The egg monopoly wants to continue to be a monopoly."
Lieberman and Forer (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Last week, the defense budget was agreed upon in a tripartite meeting between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz.
However, apart from the Ministry of Defense - almost all the other ministries still have gaps and disputes, and especially in the big social-civilian ministries like health, education and transportation.
The main obstacle is the health budget, which has a gap of about a billion shekels between the Ministry of Finance and Health.
Meretz chairman Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz has threatened to vote against the budget if the health budget does not increase, in line with commitments in coalition agreements.
The defense budget was already agreed last week.
Ganz and Bennett (Photo: Government Press Office, Oded Karni)
The import reform also angers farmers, who are putting heavy pressure on the Labor Party, blue and white and there is a future, in order to demand changes as a condition for their support of the budget, and is expected to become a real problem once it reaches Knesset approval.
Even in the ministries of housing, environmental protection and immigration and absorption, there are still gaps.
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Temano-Shta also threatened to oppose the budget if a budget was not allocated to raise the rest of Ethiopian Jews.
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