The Jerusalem Municipality has begun to lay off 2,150 workers amid an ongoing budget spat with the Finance Ministry.
As of today, 600 dismissal notices have been sent to municipality employees, including 317 sanitation workers, 64 municipal police officers, 160 family health center workers, 18 employment assistants and 21 workers from the absorption authority.
In a statement, Mayor Nir Barak says Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon is responsible for the “devastating blow,” and vows to “do everything possible to solve the crisis and prevent the city from shutting down.
Barkat reportedly claims that the capital has not been receiving the hundreds of millions of shekels in funding it deserves, with the reason being that Kahlon is getting back at him personally for supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the last elections and not him.
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