Following the decision of Finance Minister Lieberman and Agriculture Minister Forer to abolish the customs on fruits and vegetables, MKs from the coalition today (Tuesday) demanded that Knesset Speaker Miki Levy urgently convene the Knesset plenum due to "breach of the ministers' commitment."
The MKs called for the repeal of the orders signed this morning by Ministers Lieberman and Forer. "They violated any agreement and fatally damaged the stability of the coalition.
We will cancel the orders in the Knesset plenum. "The MKs wrote from the Labor factions, Meretz and Blue and White.
"Unfortunately, precisely during a global crisis in the wake of the war in Ukraine that proves the strategic need of the State of Israel to plan its food security policy in the long term, the finance and agriculture ministers chose to trample on coalition agreements and harm local production," Knesset members wrote in a letter to Levy.
Minister of Agriculture Forer, Photo: Jonathan Shaul
MKs' letter against Lieberman,
Recall that the order includes the immediate abolition of customs duties on a variety of fruits and vegetables, including avocados, garlic, peas, beans, figs, pineapples, berries and mushrooms.
The rest of the caps on fresh, frozen and preserved fruits and vegetables will be gradually reduced over five years to maintain local agriculture and allow for an adjustment period.
The farmers started a protest
Earlier today, farmers launched a campaign against the government under the headline: "Without agriculture - there is no independence."
This, they claim, "against the background of the ministers unilaterally signing the import orders for honey, eggs, fish, meat and olive oil and the intention of the finance and agriculture ministers to unilaterally also sign orders to reduce tariffs on imports of fruits and vegetables."
"What Nasrallah and the leaders of Hamas have failed to do is what the change government is doing to the agricultural settlement in the Golan, the Galilee, the Negev, and the Gaza Strip," the campaign said.
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