"The treasury is ready to give an increase of a few percent, it is impossible to recruit police officers like this":
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir was absent today (Thursday) from the government meeting to approve the budget, following the lack of agreement on the scope of the budget for his office.
Ben Gabir has been holding meetings since yesterday with the treasury officials to get an answer to his demands for raising the policemen's salary, extensive recruitment as well as the establishment of a national guard.
At the beginning of the yeshiva, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked to compliment him on his achievements in the budget and was surprised when he discovered that he was not sitting around the table.
Tensions with the Ministry of National Security?
Government meeting, archive, photo: Kobi Gideon, Chief of Staff
Ben Gabir told his close associates: "I spoke with Bibi about raising police salaries. It is true that we agreed on an increase of NIS 14 billion in the coalition agreement. There are red lines. Police salaries, increased standards and the National Guard. The Treasury is willing to give an increase of a few percent. You cannot recruit like this Police officers. It won't happen on my shift. I'm not going to give up. It's true that the police will get in 2023 what they've never gotten before, but it doesn't satisfy me."
"We work day and night, Saturdays and holidays."
A policeman in the background of a demonstration, archive, photo: Eyal Margolin - Gini
On January 24, Ben Gabir together with the commissioner convened a press conference where he announced police reform, this after he found out that a beginning police investigator earns NIS 6,429 a month, a detective earns NIS 7,387 and a beginning patrolman earns NIS 7,350. "Our heroic police officers work on Saturdays and holidays, around the clock , and return home with these low amounts," he said, adding that it is no wonder that in 2021 631 police officers resigned - twice as many as in 2020, and in the last year the number of police officers resigning jumped to 1,030 police officers.
He was surprised when he noticed that Ben Gavir had not arrived.
Netanyahu, photo: Yoav Dudkevich
"This day is a day of good news for the citizens of Israel, good news for the police, good news for all of us," he declared, adding that in the coalition agreement a significant budget of 14 billion shekels for the years 2023-2024 was reached for the bodies of the ministry - the police, the Israel Defense Forces, and the fire and rescue services. According to the reform he presented, the police An additional 4,000 police officers will be added in the next two years to double the strength of the National Guard and establish a national guard.
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