An hour before Saturday, the Minister of Finance Avigdor Lieberman Puts on the agenda of the cabinet meeting a decision-makers’ approval for a horizontal cut in offices in favor of funding the housing program for immigrants from Ukraine and Russia. The housing program for immigrants has been delayed for several weeks due to debates within the government over Lieberman’s announcement that it would work on a horizontal cut to fund it.
foreign Minister Yair Lapid Opposed the cuts and claimed that there are twenty billion of budget surpluses and so do MKs in the Labor Party, including Naama Lazimi, a member of the Finance Committee. The housing plan was not implemented and now Lieberman decides, unlike his government colleagues, to continue with the austerity plan.
This is another obstacle to the existence of the coalition that became a minority coalition this week with the retirement of MK Idit Silman. A 0.9% cut in the budgets of government ministries in 2022. It is also written that different ministries will be able to decide on a different cut between their plans as long as the cut from each ministry remains the same.
In addition, it was decided to cut the budgets of the National Insurance Institute, the Knesset, the State Comptroller and the Employment Service at the same rates. The budget, which will accumulate four billion shekels, is supposed to help absorb 25,000 immigrants and will be allocated in accordance with the decision of the housing program for housing the immigrants. Among other things, NIS 17 million from the Prime Minister’s Office, NIS 6.6 million from the Ministry of Finance, NIS 36 million from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIS 5 million from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIS 23 million from the Ministry of Welfare, NIS 27 million from the Ministry of Education, NIS 31 million The Ministry of Agriculture, 20 million from the employment service, 17 million from the economy, 63 million from transportation, 5 million from housing grants and another 13 million from the Ministry of Housing and more.