Jeanette Friedman

Globes: the fight is on for survivor monies in israel

Sep 01

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Finance C’tee clashes on Holocaust survivor payments
Approval of the payments to Holocaust survivor meant approval of a budget cut.
Adrian Filut 1 Sep 08 18:12
There were heated exchanges in the Knesset Finance Committee today after MKs discovered that the approval of the warrants allowing payments to Holocaust survivors is conditional on the committee approving an across-the-board cut of 6% in ministerial budgets, passed by the government a month ago.

The government approved the 6% cut , which amounts to NIS 760 million, to finance the adding of an extra 1,000 officers to Israel Police, to finance part of the education reform, as well as to fund payments to Holocaust survivors. In other words, the money for survivors was supposed to be financed by the budget cut. Under Knesset regulations, the Knesset Finance Committee cannot decide on a budgetary allocation beyond the limits of the approved budget for 2008, without specifying where the financing will come from.