Sa’ar to Netanyahu: Why didn’t you pass budget last year when you had chance?

3 November 2021, 8:42 pm

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Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar tweets a reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Knesset speech against the government and the new state budget.

“In a toxic speech filled with incitement and falsehoods, Netanyahu avoided answering one question,” Sa’ar writes. “Why exactly did he not pass a budget when he had the chance to do so for the country a year ago?”

Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar attends the Golan Heights Conference on Economics and Regional Development, on October 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu is widely believed to have torpedoed the budget under his power-sharing government with Benny Gantz, in order to bring down that coalition and avoid passing the premiership on to him as had been agreed between the two as part of their deal.

That fight led directly to the collapse of the last government and the most recent election, the results of which saw Netanyahu ousted from office.