After issuing warnings last week against absences and late arrivals to cabinet meetings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept four ministers outside for the start of the weekly meeting, a Prime Minister’s Office official tells The Times of Israel.
Economy Minister Nir Barkat, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, and Social Equality Minister May Golan fumed as they were left outside for the first 10 minutes of the meeting, Ynet reports.
Last week, due to growing frustration on the part of Netanyahu over sparsely attended cabinet meetings, his cabinet secretary, Yossi Fuchs, issued a series of measures to punish latecomers and absentees. A minister who shows up late or misses a cabinet meeting without being excused will be barred from presenting proposals related to their ministry at the next meeting, Fuchs told government ministers.
A minister who is late or absent from two meetings without prior approval will not be granted funds for work travel abroad.
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