Chikli resigns from Social Equality Ministry to cut spending during war

8 January 2024, 9:10 pm

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Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli at the Knesset, June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Amichai Chikli has stepped down from his post as minister for social equality in an effort to limit spending on what has widely been seen as an excessive number of government offices, the continued operation of which has come under renewed scrutiny since the war.

Chikli will continue to serve as diaspora affairs minister, but will return to the Knesset in what will ostensibly force one of the extra “Norwegian” lawmakers to resign.

Hebrew media reports that Mai Golan will become the new Social Equality Minister and that her women’s advancement office, which was established just for her upon the formation of the government in December 2022, will be folded into Chikli’s old office.