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How much does former Justice Minister Nissenkorn earn as a special adviser to the health minister?

The cost of the Ministry of Health's contract with Nissenkorn, who has been a strategic adviser since retiring from politics, is up to NIS 50,000.

The Treasury was outraged at his rare and unusual involvement in the health budget negotiations.

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Wednesday, 04 August 2021, 14:10

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The Minister of Justice and former chairman of the Histadrut, Avi Nissenkorn, will earn up to NIS 50,000 for the advisory services provided to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz in the state budget discussions. the amount of the contract is 50 thousand dollars.

Nissenkorn, who was justice minister in the previous government, left politics earlier this year after an adventure politically failed with Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai, for which the resigned cabinet and left the "blue and white". since he joined to the Israel For democracy and advises in the private market, among other things, it was reported that he advises the Defense Ministry Committee in their struggle with the Ministry of Finance, and the Teva Pharmaceuticals Committee in the fight against the company's management.

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It was learned that during the budget discussions with the Treasury, Nissenkorn left the room while discussing the medicine basket, in view of his connection to "Nature".

The Ministry of Health says that it signed a conflict of interest agreement as usual, which also included reference to the issue of counseling for nature workers, but they refused to publish it.

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Signed a conflict of interest agreement due to the connection to "Nature".

Nissenkorn (Photo: Official Website, Jonathan Zindel / Flash 90)

Horowitz's use of Nissenkorn as an external consultant for the negotiations of his office's budget is rare and unusual and has provoked great anger in the Treasury, where they are used to holding discussions with the senior professional echelons of government ministries - CEOs, VPs, economic advisers, office accountants and the like. the only minister in the current government subsists on support from outside and pay. two senior members of the Institute of health Minister today, chief of staff and spokesman, had the same positions in the hive upcoming Nissenkorn during his tenure as justice minister.

for a week, the Treasury seized the presence of Nissenkorn budget discussions and agreed to sit down with him instead of with the Ministry of Health Finance officials even approached Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to examine the legality of using external counseling, and were told that there was no legal impediment to his participation in the hearings.

According to government sources, the Ministry of Finance also examined whether it is possible to prevent him from attending the cabinet meeting on the approval of the budget in the Prime Minister's Office on Sunday.

"They have never brought in an outside consultant to negotiate a budget.

We also do not remember that ever before a private citizen, who is not a government employee, walked around the Prime Minister's Office on Budget Night.

This is hallucinatory, "said officials at the Treasury.

"An external consultant was never brought in to negotiate a budget." Horowitz (Photo: screenshot, no)

The health budget negotiations were the most challenging and difficult on the way to approving the state budget in the government, in the face of repeated threats and explosions on the part of Horowitz, who demanded a significant increase in the budget allocated to his office. In the end, the Ministry of Health succeeded in obtaining a significant addition of two billion shekels to the budget that will be used, among other things, to increase the budget of the hospitals and the medicine basket, fix the corona standards, rehabilitate the mental health system, and more.

The Ministry of Health responded to Walla!

"The contract with Nissenkorn was approved as part of an abbreviated procedure up to NIS 50,000, including VAT, in accordance with the Tender Obligations Law and the Ordinance of the Civil Code.

The work order was approved by Merkava on 13/7/2021, and the contract will be published under the Freedom of Information Law, which requires government ministries to publish contracts once a quarter on a dedicated website.

Nissenkorn signed a conflict of interest arrangement that addressed, among other things, the issues mentioned in the query. "

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