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Monday, March 18, 2013
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Youngest MK says Israel ‘selling off its natural resources’
Labor’s former social protest leader Stav Shaffir protests the looming cuts in higher education.
Stav Shafir speaking in the Knesset Monday. (Screenshot: Knesset Channel)
She also says Israel is “selling off its natural resources” — referring to the terms for distribution of income from natural gas discoveries off-shore.
Shaffir, the youngest female MK ever at 27, worries that housing reforms, ostensibly designed to help young Israeli bread-winning couples, will be skewed to bring more income to contractors, and that eligibility criteria for affordable housing will be not be sensibly designed.
She urges cancellation of the two-year budget — a modest suggestion from a young MK, she says — looking straight at Finance Minister-elect Lapid, who smiles back. That would “save a lot of pain,” she says.
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