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The budget is the insurance certificate of the Bennett-Lapid government against Netanyahu's return to power
Although the budget was approved only on first reading and two more months of struggle in the Knesset were prepared for it, the coalition took another step on the road to ensuring the stability of the government.
There have been crises and threats, but veterans of the Ministry of Finance find it difficult to recall a budget that has passed so smoothly.
The good will and the will in power overcame the deep controversies
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Naftali Bennett
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Avigdor Lieberman
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Friday, 03 September 2021, 09:28 Updated: 09:29
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In the video: Finance Minister Lieberman opens the budget debates in the Knesset plenum (Photo: Knesset Channel)
Just before the vote on the state budget and the Arrangements Law last night (Thursday), Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman asked to go to the podium, and in the best genre currently common in the Knesset, within seconds it had escalated into shouts. "It is no great pleasure to see you screaming," Lieberman said at the end of the loud confrontation with the Likudniks on the opposition benches, wishing that "for a long time to come you will have to dry up here and scream," accompanied by a small, bastard smile.
The budget was approved only on first reading, and two more months of struggles in the Knesset were waiting for it until its final approval, but the Bennett-Lapid government marked another significant V in the first hundred days register. Lieberman's initiated quarrel with the Likudniks was his way of celebrating another stage in turning the upheaval into a fait accompli.
Not just Lieberman.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his partner Yair Lapid were also full of smiles and congratulations, and even blue-and-white chairman Bnei Gantz seemed for a moment to have undergone an anti-acid surgery, hugging his neighbors around the cabinet table. In Hawaii, he observed what was happening in the plenum from the stand of the isolated.
It was a show that faithfully reflected the political significance of the budget transfer - an insurance policy against his return to power.
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Achievement for the coalition: The Knesset approved on first reading the state budget for the years 2022-2021
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Bennett and Lapid were full of smiles and blessings.
Celebrating after the victory in the vote, yesterday (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Danny Shem Tov, Knesset Spokeswoman)
The glue that formed the government is also the glue of the budget, along with the basic premise that none of the partners will want to falter and be accidentally dragged into the election. Those same partners framed the internal battles in the coalition within convenient boundaries, and allowed the Ministry of Finance to pass one of the greatest and most ambitious arrangements laws of all time.
The last weeks of the discussions on the budget in the government prior to its submission to the Knesset have not reached the high decibels as they were heard in the plenum yesterday. On the contrary, they were characterized by quiet and calm not typical of the class. Veterans of the Ministry of Finance still have a hard time remembering a budget that passed so smoothly.
Yes, there were crises and there were threats, both on the budget night in the government and this week in front of MKs from Labor and Meretz, who barricaded themselves in the Ministry of Finance with objections to three reforms in the Arrangements Law.
At one point, Bennett and Lapid demanded that Nitzan Horowitz and Merav Michaeli straighten them out, but they gave the fighters full backing, and these took him to the end.
Lieberman, for his part, pursued the bride's policy, or rather attrition: he was not dragged into the media rounds, insisted he would be fine, sent senior finance officials to hours of meetings with MKs and postponed the real negotiations until the last minute. Then, soften his heart, open The pocket, and reached compromises.
Adopted a policy of the bride, or rather attrition.
Lieberman in the Knesset, yesterday (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman Noam Moskowitz)
Earlier this month, Meretz chairman Nitzan Horowitz, who threatened to vote against the budget in the government, received respectable additions to the health budget. MK Michal Rosin and Naama Lazimi, who led the fight to raise the retirement age for women, received close to NIS 1 billion this week for a hard-working women safety net And weakened populations. Yesterday morning, an hour before the plenary debate began, a compromise was also reached on agricultural reform, and parts of it were split out of the Arrangements Law, as demanded by representatives of the working class settlement.
The debate over regulatory reform, which really lasted until the last minute, was beyond Lieberman's control because he exposed the entangled coalition at a weak point with a significant and large ideological-economic gap. The proposal to establish a regulatory authority that would circumvent the powers of government ministries, born in the Beit Midrash of the Ecclesiastical Forum and rolled out to ensure right-wing elections, lit all the red lights in the left-wing parties.
Deputy Minister Avir Kara and MK Musi Raz both stood on their hind legs as the hawkish flag bearers of each side of the coalition, with real threats to vote against the budget. Duty to consult only, and accurately fulfilled the role reserved for the Center Party, in a government torn between right and left.
Bennett and Abbas, yesterday (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman, Danny Shem Tov, Knesset Spokeswoman)
In the end, everyone came out happy.
The left-wing bloc boasts a trio of achievements in all pre-marked goals, Kara has received promises of unemployment benefits and a safety net for the self-employed, and the long lists of credits on media reports show her success seeks to be many ancestral partners.
At their head, Bennett and Lapid, who went through another significant hurdle on the way to ensuring the stability of the government.
The approval of the budget on first reading joins the successful visit of the Prime Minister to the White House, the opening of the school year as a series, and the Tishrei holidays, which, unlike the early panic, will not be closed, and strengthens the effort to show a healthy and functioning government.
One can argue about the numbers and sectors, but it is difficult to argue with the essential importance of giving horizon and stability to the economy, after years of election economics.
And this is a key goal of the Bennett-Lapid government, which has proven, once again, that goodwill - and the desire for power - also overcome deep disagreements.
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