2024-05-08 03:07:53
Moshe Gafni, chairman of the finance committee from the Torah Jewry party, expressed at a meeting of his committee his acute dissatisfaction with the government’s actions to control rising prices.
According to him, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy are passive in this matter and are not taking the necessary steps to curb inflation. Gafni stressed that in his opinion the government has failed in solving this problem.
Moshe Gafni expressed concern that citizens are having difficulty providing for their family budgets due to rising prices, despite their income. He noted that such issues are usually considered by the economic commission, but he feels that he is forced to discuss them at the finance commission due to the lack of adequate solutions.
Also during the commission meeting, Orit Farkas-Hacohen of the State Camp party responded to reports that Finance Minister Smotrich canceled a meeting with Netanyahu to discuss economic issues in protest at the postponement of the Rafah operation.
She asked why “an irresponsible finance minister is holding Israeli citizens hostage?” Reports emerged this morning that during a meeting with the Prime Minister’s Office, Smotrich said he would begin to address the issue of the high cost of living “after Rafah.”
“This is not the first time that the Minister of Finance has held Israel hostage. He did this when approving the budget, held evacuees, the Tkuma administration and soldiers hostage until they inflated the budget of the Orit Struk ministry and increased stipends for the Avrehams,” she emphasized Orit Farkas-Hacohen.
Earlier, Cursor wrote that Economy Minister Nir Barkat described the constant increase in prices for consumer goods during the war as an “uncontrollable disgrace” and called on citizens to independently fight the high cost.
2024-05-08 03:07:53