Against the background of the sinkhole storm that opened at the peace interchange in the Ayalon lanes, Prime Minister Yair Lapid opened the cabinet meeting this morning (Sunday) and announced that the Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli will bring to the government this morning a proposed resolution that will upgrade and strengthen the fight against road accidents. “This struggle is in our souls. I remember the moment when I enter the house and both my parents are waiting for me at the entrance, standing and crying, and they tell me that my sister was killed in a car accident, at the age of 24,” Lapid recalled.
“Every accident you hear about in the media breaks up a family. What makes it even more terrible is that a great many of these accidents can be prevented with proper work. The State of Israel has not done enough to combat road accidents. In recent years, other countries have managed to reduce fatal accidents by tens of percent because they Work correctly. Now this government is making a change and is going to work in this area as well.”
A budgetary addition of NIS 200 million per year to be paid to Holocaust survivors in Israel
Tomorrow night, Lapid left for New York to represent Israel at the UN Assembly. “I will hold a series of political meetings there, among other things with the President of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan and with the new Prime Minister of Great Britain, Liz Truss.
Also, Lapid said that today a decision will be submitted to the government that establishes and budgets the working groups of the Negev Forum, which the government established this year together with the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt. “These working groups create economic and security connections that a few years ago we couldn’t even dream of. We work together on food-tech, water, energy, tourism, climate projects, deepen the trade between our countries and conduct a dialogue that strengthens Israel’s security.”
Social Equality Minister Merav Cohen will report to the government on the historic agreement she signed this week in Berlin, between the government of Israel and the government of Germany. As part of this agreement, there will be a budgetary addition of NIS 200 million per year to be paid to Holocaust survivors living in Israel. Thousands of Holocaust survivors who are defined as nursing will receive an additional NIS 1,200 every month.”
According to the Prime Minister, the agreement joins other moves that the government led this year, within the framework of which over 2.6 billion shekels were collected from the countries of the world and from the state budget for the sake of Holocaust survivors