After Bennett and Lapid were criticized for transferring a lot of money to MK Mansour Abbas - the current government will continue the five-year plan for the Arab sector that was approved by the previous government.
This is a large program, amounting to NIS 30 billion for the years 2022-2026, which deals with investing money in the Arab sector in education, transportation, welfare and more.
Minister of Social Equality Amichai Shikli, whose office is responsible for the inclusion of the plan, agreed with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and his staff on the formation of a "filtering mechanism" to make sure that the funds do not go to elements that are defined as inciters or separatists and to associations that work against government policy.
Around Smotrich they say: "We criticized the fact that there were no control mechanisms for the money, but we never supported harming the Arab citizens of Israel."
Not everything is under his control.
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Shikli even directed the people of his office to check in the contracts if there is a transfer of funds through inciting entities.
The idea is that in order to realize the construction of roads, for example, the government prefers to transfer the money through external infrastructure providers such as Routes Israel - and not through local authorities, where it is more difficult to track the funds.
Regarding the associations Shikli refuses to work with "separatist" associations with a Palestinian national agenda.
One of them, which Sheikli instructed to examine the engagements with, is the "Ajik" association, an Arab-Jewish research institute in the Negev.
It should be noted that not every connection is under the control of Minister Shikli, but he implements the filtering mechanism also to flood things to the other ministries that transfer funds within the program.
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