The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu passed the state budget for 2023 and 2024 in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The budget was passed in its second and third readings with 64 MKs voting in favor versus 56 MKs who voted against it. The state budget for 2023 is NIS 484 billion and in 2024 it will be NIS 514 billion.
The new budget allocates nearly $4 billion in discretionary funds, much of it for chareidim and pro-yishuv parties.
That will include increases in controversial stipends for chareidim to learn in yeshiva instead of working or serving in the military.
It also includes more money for chareidi schools.
The funds also include tens of millions of dollars for officials to promote pet projects through the ministries they control. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he hopes to double the population of West Bank yishuvim in the coming years.
Following the vote, Netanyahu told reporters that “this is the dawn of a new day.”
Netanyahu later wrote on Twitter: ‘We won the elections, we passed a budget. We continue for four good years.”
In the video below, an elated Netanyahu thanks the members of his government for the achievement, first and foremost Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich.
תודה רבה לכולכם! pic.twitter.com/ZJdOR4ZgG8
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) May 24, 2023
תקציב 2023 עבר. ממשיכים. pic.twitter.com/xejdJbLqSj
— בצלאל סמוטריץ' (@bezalelsm) May 23, 2023
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Wow!!. $4 billion in slush funds to pay off Chareidi mosdos to keep young men and women out of the workforce. Even American political hacks would be impressed. At almost the same time as the Knesset vote, OUR right-wing Republican political hacks are demanding 30 hrs of work/week to qualify for various government subsidy programs as a condition of avoiding a debt default.
Mi kamocha yisroel.
What achdus and vote sharing can achieve!
How much money in Israel and the USA goes to universities and colleges to keep students out of the workforce?
Bsityata dishmya
Why does Dorah always have to make leftist comments?
Does she know that Chareidi teachers get paid much less than teachers in Chiloni schools?
The situation in private Chareidi schools is even worse than in the big network schools.
The government bonuses like Ofek Chadash do not apply to Charedi schools.
Finally, when they are given a bit extra to start to even it out, the funds are only discretionary and not in the regular budget so everyone (like Dorah) could say “Look how much money they are getting”, playing the ‘robbed Cossack’.
My wife was a kindergarten teacher, but after learning for years only got paid slightly more than minimum wage!
Beit,
Dorah’s is a dedicated follower of the woke religion and would have volunteered to run the gas chambers during the Holocaust.