Kahlon: Offer to Yisrael Beytenu is fair, we won’t permit a frenzy

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon says the offer made to Yisrael Beytenu is a fair one and he will not agree to unrestrained steps in order to secure a coalition expansion.

“The proposal we made to Yisrael Beytenu is extremely fair. It does not discriminate, it is not sectoral and caters to the entire public. We will not permit even one proposal that would widen the [societal] gaps,” he says, according to Walla.

The finance minister says that he has worked to expand government in the past year, but he will not allow “a frenzy – not political, not security and not economic.”

Coalition talks with Yisrael Beytenu reached an impasse earlier today, its party leader Liberman said. One of the sticking points is reportedly the funding for pensions of immigrants from the former Soviet Union — Liberman’s key demographic.