Activating muscles: Fear in the coalition about a ‘rebellion’ by MK Almog Cohen from Otzma Yehudit and MK Mai Golan from the Likud.
The years are angry that they did not receive the deputy minister positions they were promised in the Prime Minister’s Office, after it became clear on Sunday that the law allows for the appointment of only two deputy ministers in the Prime Minister’s Office and not four – and therefore the appointment of both was not approved by the government today, because Netanyahu exceeded the possible quota of deputy ministers .
In response, May Golan did not come to vote on Monday and probably won’t come on Wednesday either. According to a report in ‘Khan Haudas’, in the meantime she was offered the position of chairman of the Knesset Committee in order to please her.
According to a report by Dafna Lial, MK Almog Cohen also intends to be absent from tomorrow’s votes in the Knesset, this in protest of a 3% reduction in the Mitar, Carmit and Dimona tax benefit.
Cohen, who was supposed to be deputy minister in the prime minister’s office responsible for the Beer Sheva metropolis, refused the position of deputy minister of the economy, and is requesting the position of deputy minister in the Ministry of Internal Security or the Ministry of the Negev and the Galilee.
Against the background of the decision to reduce the tax benefit to 3% for settlements in the Beer Sheva metropolis, Dimona Mayor Benny Biton sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in which he expresses his concern. “The decision to reduce the rate of the tax benefit by 3% may, God forbid, set back everything we have worked for for a decade,” he wrote. “It could cause negative immigration, which could turn out to be a disaster.”
MK also my uncle Amsalem, who remained outside the government after his ultimatum to accept the position of Minister of Justice or Speaker of the Knesset failed, Will be absent from the Knesset debates tomorrow.
Those around him say that he “doesn’t feel well, Sick with the flu and lying in bed. Everything else is cheap gossip.”