If the previous government had enacted a budget law in 2020, it would probably have been similar to this budget, which is based more on wishes than on reality.
Therefore it is good that he did not legislate during the crisis.
In reality, the corona is not yet behind us.
In the budget passed in the first reading - yes.
The opposition, as well as the media, lamented that the previous government ran without a budget in 2020-2021, but the truth is that there was a relative budget and there were "corona boxes" that were adapted to the situation while on the move.
It is true that non-approval of a budget does not allow for the development and execution of plans, but even this budget does not really do so.
The metro budget, for example, has been taken out of it, even though it is the flagship venture of the state infrastructure.
At a panel held last Thursday at the Bar Association's legal conference, Adv. Yehuda Raveh said in this regard that "this is the largest project set up in Israel, amounting to NIS 150 billion. 24 local authorities are involved. For 90 years now, there has been talk of a subway in Israel and this is a vital project. But the outline of the Metro Act, and especially its funding and implementation, cannot be implemented in this way. Almost every project that the state has carried out on its own has never been completed on a pre-defined time and budget. The government is not supposed to carry out projects, but to set goals, allocate land, enact necessary legislation and let the private sector finance and carry out the projects under government supervision. "
Advocate Raveh also addressed the issue of regulatory reform in the same panel, saying that "there is definitely a need for an authority to concentrate the issue under it. However, the question is whether this great revolution should be passed in the Arrangements Law, as another of dozens of laws that are changing. "I'm not sure, and I'm even afraid that the whole move will end in the establishment of another bureaucratic body without significant powers." A body without powers to deal with the matter of too many bodies with conflicting powers.
The same is true in the area of reform in raising the retirement age for women.
The government reached an agreement with the old pension funds, and undertook to transfer hundreds of millions of shekels.
The idea was that this arrangement would put an end to government commitments to funds.
For this to happen there were two options: either the retirement age for women would be raised, or pension benefits would be cut to achieve balance, without spending any more money from the state coffers.
The Treasury has made the right choice - to raise the retirement age.
But the opposition in the coalition led him to offer funding of hundreds of millions of shekels, so that he would agree to the reform.
But as mentioned, the government was not supposed to transfer funds and somehow the public funds are redirected to the matter, as was done in the hasty arrangement of the treasury with the approval of the "addition of the chief of staff".
In the end, the fact that MK Avir Kara is discussing with the Treasury a legitimate demand for business assistance, a moment after the budget was approved on first reading, indicates more than anything else its nature. The public - perhaps the needs of the government.