The joint debate on the budget laws took place today (Tuesday) in the Knesset plenum and is expected to continue until tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.
Following the reasoning of the reservations, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Opposition Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Committee Chairman Alex Kushnir will conclude the discussion.
Voting will then begin on the many reservations submitted by the opposition.
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During the debate, MK Sami Abu Shehadeh (joint list) said: "The State of Israel is a rich country, the Israeli economy has developed quite rapidly in recent years, and despite the corona's difficult global situation, the government has decided to increase its budget by 150 billion. Where's the problem? The problem is the way the money is distributed. Who gets the money, where does the money go, and where does it not go. Who gets the money, and who does not get. The only explanation for the gaps that exist in all areas of life between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel is the racism of the Jews who ran the state. There is no other explanation. "
MK Avi Maoz (Religious Zionism): "Finance Minister Lieberman, the one who sought to throw the ultra-Orthodox public in the landfill with wheelbarrows, and who now proves how much his hatred burns when he imposes harsh decrees on the entire public and in particular on the weak populations in the periphery, "The budget of the yeshivot, in the decree of the dormitories and in the one-time tax, out of its ties with a certain liberal organization, a very specific one, leads behind the scenes the kashrut reform."
MK Avi Maoz, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Maoz added that "this is only the first conscious-cultural attack by the government of all its citizens on the Jewish identity of the state, as the leaders of the coalition parties and the various ministers proudly stated - more reforms are in the pipeline. Minister Kahana again The electorate, which is not a Jew who was unfortunately brought into the country, also intends to carry out a reform of the conversion system as well. "
Galit Distel Atbrian (Likud): "In 2009 the world went through one of the biggest economic crises it has known in decades. An unbearable recession; the United States, Europe, all of them. The most powerful countries have simply fallen. Citizens have experienced unemployment, recession, inflation and what not. .
MK Galit Distel-Atbrian, Photo: Danny Shem Tov, Spokeswoman for the Knesset
MK Orly Levy Abacis (Likud): "I understood that until today the state budget was a means, not an end, but with you the creators have turned upside down.
The state budget has become a goal.
You are running a budget, and to enable this government to survive, you will do whatever it takes to ensure the Tribal Council, that you survive another day and another hour, and maybe another week, and if necessary you change the Knesset rules to create a mock majority contrary to public vote. The greatest in the State of Israel at the ballot box, or if you will in another word, the will of the people.
She added that "Ministers, they are interviewed about the achievement of the budget transfer. They are proud that when they approved the budget in the government, it passed unanimously. Applaud there, and I ask myself, tell me, it seems normal to you, that a state budget passes and all ministers protest "Hands down, no one has a critique? No one thinks something here might need to be fixed? But what, you guys, this budget brings with it real news, and the good news is survival."
Bennett, Lapid and Lieberman (archive), Photo: Mark Israel Salem
MK Ofer Kasif (joint list): "Coalition members from parties that claim to be social, parties that see themselves as supporting human rights, such as Labor, Meretz and Ra'am - not only maintain neutrality, using the status quo slogan in the face of apartheid and ethnic cleansing crimes In the Occupied Territories, they also take a stand in favor of a budget that harms the weak and deepens the occupation. In a relationship of sale and purchase, give and take, instead of in a civil relationship of rights, rights are conferred. "
Meanwhile, the coalition maintains optimism ahead of the budget transfer expected to take place on Thursday and Friday night and each of the coalition members is expected to receive tomorrow, with the start of voting on the budget, a package + note prepared in MK Edith Silman's bureau.
The case prepared for the coalition members in the office of MK Silman,