Deputy Minister Meir Yitzhak Halevi asks Knesset to finance flights to Eilat: "Cheaper than a car"

Yitzhak Halevi, who entered the Knesset by virtue of Norwegian law and whose appointment as deputy minister provoked much criticism, now wants to allow him to fly on the Ben Gurion Airport-Eilat route as a means to get back and forth from the Knesset. Also the fuel, wear and tear and driver

Yaki Adamkar

08/01/2022

Saturday, 08 January 2022, 18:24 Updated: 19:23

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In the video: The debate that arose in the Knesset plenum due to the offsetting of MK Meir Yitzhak Halevi (Knesset Spokeswoman)

The Knesset's Finance Committee will convene next Monday to discuss whether to approve permanent funding for plane tickets for Deputy Minister Meir Yitzhak Halevi (New Hope) from Eilat to Ben Gurion Airport and back.

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It was learned that Halevi, the first Knesset member living in Eilat, demands that Knesset members approve a "flight procedure and permit" for him, as he puts it, and claimed that "approval of this request will allow me to arrive at the Knesset of Israel and my home in Eilat in a reasonable time, comfort and safety."

According to the request, Halevy, who serves as an MK under Norwegian law and whose appointment as deputy minister in the government provoked harsh criticism, will receive funding for a round-trip ticket, once a week. This is explicitly stated. Deputy Minister Halevy did not state the monthly cost of flights, but argued to Knesset members that "the cost of a round-trip flight to a resident of Eilat is cheaper than the cost of traveling in and from the service vehicle to and from Eilat."

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If the application is approved, it will be the first precedent in the history of the Mishkan.

Meir Yitzhak Halevi (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

However, MK Halevy's calculation shows that he included "fuel, wear and tear, cost of consultant / driver and more" within the vehicle's travel costs, "he said," without referring to the safety aspect derived from a long and difficult trip that my consultants or I will have to make. " An orderly procedure for financing domestic flights for Knesset members has not been approved, and if the members of the Finance Committee approve the request, it will be the first precedent in the history of the Mishkan

. Of more than 140 km from the city. This is on the condition that the next day there is a committee that begins its deliberations at 10:00 in the morning, and they ask to participate in it.

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