After a year and a half in office, Hamed Amar of the Yisrael Beitenu party revealed today in a hearing in the Knesset that the law that was supposed to qualify him as a minister in the Ministry of Finance was not passed at all and he was basically a “minister without a portfolio” all this time.
An amazing event in the committee.
Hamed Amar did not know that he was not a minister in the Ministry of Finance.
Amar: I was sworn in as a minister in the Ministry of Finance, I’m not a minister without a portfolio, the vice president was wrong.
The deputy to Yaamshit: You wanted to pass a law to the minister in the Ministry of Finance, but the law did not pass and you are a minister without a portfolio that is placed in the Ministry of Finance.
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Amar, as I recall, was appointed with the establishment of the Bennett Lapid government as a minister in the Ministry of Finance under his party’s chairman, minister Avigdor Lieberman, but only today he discovered that the law that would allow him to be a minister in the office of a sitting minister was not actually enacted, an amendment that was actually enacted these days but for Smotrich.
Member of Knesset Simcha Rothman, who was present at the hearing, said following the incident: “While we are checking every section of the law and working day and night to get the government sworn in the way of the king and the law, the members of the future opposition are preaching morals to us instead of checking themselves.”