Defense Ministry chief: ‘Impossible to function’ without state budget

16 November 2020, 4:22 pm

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Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Eshel lambastes the lack of a state budget — an issue of contention between Likud and Blue and White.

“Any action over NIS 1 million requires Treasury approval, it’s impossible to function like this,” Eshel says.

“Our big and central problem is the lack of a state budget. We cannot build work plans, make priorities and take action. If we don’t have a budget for 2021 by year’s end we will need to work with last year’s resources… no discussions are happening with the Finance Ministry about a budget. We are prepared to sit with them at any time but there’s a brick wall.”