Yair Lapid, head of the opposition Yesh Atid Party, attacks the cabinet’s approval for more political appointments “that nobody needs.”
The proposal gives the directors general of 21 ministries — those with more than 150 employees — the right to appoint a deputy without a tender, so long as the appointees had six to seven years of relevant experience and was tasked not with overseeing ministry staff but with supervising special projects and inter-ministry communications.
“Each post like that costs NIS two million,” Lapid says in a statement, with the result that “in total, all they’ve approved today is NIS 40 million for themselves and their close associates.”
Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid attends a ceremony for new immigrants from North America at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Zionist Union’s Tzipi Livni says “the message that the government gave today is that budgets, salaries and everything that belongs to the public and is there to serve the public has become the property of the political parties in power.”
MK Michal Rozin of Meretz says the decision goes “against proper government and the rule of law.” It opened a “dangerous window” and weakened public confidence, she charges.
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