Edelstein says coalition 'may change' after budget

Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) assesses that following the approval of the state budget the coalition may change.
“Nobody wants elections,” Edelstein says.

Earlier today, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) expressed hope that ultra-Orthodox parties would give up on some of the promises made to them in coalition agreements. “We are entering days where a state-level decision on the budget is required,” Kahlon said.

The budget Kahlon wants to pass “is a social budget, with many reforms and structural changes but without raising taxes […] such a budget is only possible if all members of the coalition lend a hand and act responsibly,” Kahlon says, mainly addressing ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism.