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Miki Zohar (Haggai Michaeli)
Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar reached an agreement with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on an unprecedented budget increase for the worlds of culture and sports in Israel in the amount of one billion shekels and the doubling of Toto’s marketing agreements with the teams. The government approved the budget of the Ministry of Culture and Sports for the years 2023-2024, with an unprecedented budgetary supplement, which will dramatically change the face of the worlds of culture and sports in Israel.
These summaries were reached after a long and intensive negotiation, held by the Minister of Culture and Sports and the Director General of his Ministry, Kafir Suissa, into the night with the professional elements in the Ministry against the professional elements in the Ministry of Finance against the background of the transfer of Toto to the Ministry of Culture and Sports. This is the highest budget increase in the history of the ministry from the day it was established, which will lead to a series of great achievements that will strengthen the sports associations and associations in Israel as well as the cultural world that will receive new projects.
In the coming weeks, the budget approved by the government will be placed on the Knesset table for final approval of the budget by the Knesset plenum. At the same time, it was agreed to transfer the Toto to the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and to double the marketing agreements for the groups while fully coordinating with the Ministry of Finance on the various issues. The Toto law will be published for public comments and will come to a vote in the Knesset before the approval of the state budget, and all this in light of the significant budget increase given to the ministry.
Minister of Culture and Sports Mickey Zohar He said: “That we lived and existed and reached this time! I am proud to fulfill my first task – to increase the budget of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in a significant and unprecedented way. With God’s blessing we are ushering in a new era in the worlds of culture and sports in Israel. I thank Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and his people and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and of course the budget division that supported my request, I am very happy that everyone understood the great importance of promoting the world of culture and sports for all of us.”
Director General of the Ministry of Culture and Sports Soybean kefir He added: “I’m glad that we were able to bring about a significant increase in the ministry’s budget. This is great news for the worlds of culture and sports in Israel. There will be an investment both in excellence and achievements and in the community, the periphery and infrastructure. I thank the professionals in the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Ministry of Finance for their hard work, to Minister Miki Zohar for his trust, and for his passion for culture and sports, thanks to which the Ministry’s budget has grown in such a way.”
