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Vote on revised war budget pushed off until next week, says Smotrich
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his far-right Religious Zionism party at the Knesset, January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says a vote on the amendment to the 2024 budget in light of massive spending on the ongoing war has been pushed off from tomorrow to next week.
In a statement from his office, Smotrich says that following a conversation with the attorney general it was agreed to delay the vote until Sunday in order to allow for the completion of “professional legal work” on the government’s decisions in the revised budget.
Some of the inclusions in the budget have riled members of the cabinet, and Minister Benny Gantz said earlier today that his party has yet to decide how it will vote on the changes.
