Defense Minister Benny Gantz sends a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he demands that the premier immediately instruct the Finance Ministry to begin preparing the 2021 state budget, and to allow its approval by December.
“Any action to thwart the approval of the budget means preferring personal considerations to the good of the Israeli people,” he says.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to IDF Home Front Command soldiers during a visit to the southern city of Ashdod, September 14, 2020. (Flash90)
Gantz also demands that long-delayed cabinet regulations solidifying the power-sharing agreements between Likud and Blue and White be ratified, and that progress be made on stalled public appointments, including the appointment of a new state attorney and police chief.
“There is a great distance between the unity agreement we signed and where we are,” he says. “The government’s conduct does not allow proper, democratic and worthy governance.”
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