Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Gideon Saar, Merav Michaeli and Nitzan Horowitz - who attacked the previous government due to its size and defined it as an "inflated government" - are expected to vote today at the cabinet meeting for another appointment to the current government.
This time it is the position of Deputy Minister of Education, to which MK Meir Yitzhak Halevi from the New Hope Party is expected to be appointed.
So far it is not really clear what his powers will be and what the Deputy Minister of Education will do, but the cost of a Deputy Minister per year is estimated at NIS 2.5 million.
New Hope, which won only six seats and currently does not pass the blocking percentage in the polls, managed to secure positions for nine members in the top ten, while three ministers (Saar, Elkin and Handel) came out under Norwegian law and vacated their seats in the Knesset for other members on the list.
Minister Gideon Saar, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
This brings the current government to 28 ministers and six deputy ministers for a 61-finger coalition.
New Tikva chairman Gideon Sa'ar has previously spoken out against the size of the previous government.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has previously said of the Netanyahu-Gantz government that "I do not enter this government, it is a detached, inflated government that deals with everything but saving its livelihood."
"Taking care of a Norwegian grandson"
Yair Lapid, it will be recalled, set up a government with no more than 18 ministers as his main election promise.
Merav Michaeli has previously tweeted against Norwegian law, while Nitzan Horowitz has previously written against the previous government that "in the small hours of the last few nights, coalition agreements were published that sewed with the various thieves.
And today, as mentioned, Bennett, Lapid, Gideon Saar, Michaeli and Horowitz will vote for another job for MK Meir Yitzhak Halevi.
The opposition attacked the appointment.
MK Shlomo Qarai wrote "Why the Deputy Minister of Education?
This madness and corruption must be taken to the extreme!
And to appoint Yitzhak Meir Halevi as Deputy Minister of Eli Avidar - the Minister without Portfolio.
And in order to break another record, it can be determined that the Norwegian MK Halevi will be able to resign from the Knesset in his role as deputy minister, laden with fatigue and bring in another Norwegian - a Norwegian grandson ... corrupt, tired! "
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