Likud MK prepares bill that would revoke ex-PM benefits for Bennett, Lapid

12 December 2022, 9:39 pm

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Likud MK Nissim Vaturi reportedly prepares a law bill aimed at preventing Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid from receiving benefits enjoyed by former prime ministers.

By law, former premiers get a host of tax benefits and an expanded security detail, the Knesset must hold a meeting to honor them when they die, and they are buried in a special leaders section in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery.

Vaturi’s bill would only give those benefits to those who served as premiers for at least two years, explaining that “we have recently witnessed a new situation in which the role of prime minister has become the subject of political blackmail, even for short-term leadership, to win benefits later on.”