Knesset members who once protested their raise now accept it

Just four lawmakers waived their salary raise in 2018, according to Channel 10.

After lawmakers voted in 2016 to raise their wages, many MKs protested. MKs’ salaries were already set at over NIS 35,000 per month, more than three times the average wage and over six times the minimum wage.

In 2016, amid the uproar, fully 32 lawmakers, or over a quarter of the Knesset, asked to forgo the raise. In 2017, it seems, 25 of them neglected to file the same request. Just seven refused the raise: David Amsalem, David Bitan, Eli Cohen, Mickey Levy, Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, Revital Swed and Ifat Sasa-Biton.

By 2018, that list had shrunk further to just four lawmakers: David Amsalem, Mickey Levy, Yossi Yona and Ofer Shelach.