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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Liberman: Coalition deal with UTJ to cost state NIS 20 billion annually
Finance Minister, Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Outgoing Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman warns that a coalition agreement between incoming Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the United Torah Judaism party will cost taxpayers some NIS 20 billion ($5.7 billion.)
Speaking to reporters as he leaves office, Liberman slams the incoming government’s deals, in particular those with the ultra-Orthodox parties.
“All the coalition agreements will lead to collapse. What we are seeing are negative incentives,” he says, referring to government subsidies for yeshiva students that keep them out of the workforce.
“The coalition deal with UTJ is estimated at NIS 20 billion annually,” he says.
