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Minister Strock claims some fellow ministers are struggling financially
Orit Strock, national missions and settlements minister, attends a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Orit Strock, the national missions and settlements minister, claims that there are ministers in the government who are struggling financially, according to a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation reported on by the Kan public broadcaster.
“No ministers receive inflated salaries, I know ministers who don’t manage to finish the month even though they work very hard, night and day — and there are even those whose parents are supporting them financially,” Strock reportedly says in the WhatsApp message in an argument with a party insider over a tax on electric vehicles.
Ministers in the government make NIS 58,274 per month; the national average salary in Israel is around 13,300.
