Tensions between Blue and White and the Likud are at their peak: The Center Party announced this morning (Monday) that the Minister of Defense Bnei Gantz He will not participate in the discussion that the Economic Cabinet will hold on the economic plan formulated by the Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, and Prime Minister Netanyahu. “For the avoidance of doubt – we will not hold a meeting on Pike’s economic plan, without resources and without feasibility, aimed at giving election bribes,” Gantz’s office said. Following the announcement, the hearing was canceled.
Earlier, the Minister of Finance Rejected criticism of the economic plan he formulated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I told Gantz yesterday that I oppose the definition of ‘election bribery.’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacks: “Do you imagine that someone will prevent me from bringing financial aid because of elections?” (Credit: None)
He explained that “the aid program for Corona has always been near the budget, not in the budget. An update must be brought now. All the finance officials were involved in the discussions – in the end the prime minister and I decided to bring it.” In Gali Tzahal, he stated that “I had contacts with the Gantz people, and today I will meet with Minister Peretz and Minister Farkash-Hacohen. To this day, I have managed to pass broad programs unanimously in the Knesset, and even now it must not be stopped in the government. “
Meanwhile, Netanyahu released a video in which he clarified: “Do you imagine that someone will prevent me from bringing vaccines because of elections? What if people die. Do you imagine that someone will prevent me from bringing financial aid because of elections? What if business suddenly dies. We brought in NIS 15 billion. “With resources, to give businesses, the self-employed, the unemployed, the Israeli economy. It is impossible for irresponsible politicians, bureaucrats and legal advisers to stand up against the people and not let us bring economic aid to the citizens. We are for the people, we will bring you the money and we will not stop fighting for you.”
The expected grant program is NIS 750 per citizen and NIS 500 per child, but it was stated in advance that the grants per citizen will be limited only to the population groups up to the seventh income decile.
The innovation in the updated program is that the grants for children will also be limited to income groups up to the seventh decile. The grants for children will be distributed only up to the fifth child, so that a family with five children will receive a grant of NIS 4,000: NIS 1,500 for a couple of parents and up to NIS 2,500 for the five children. Payment will be made through the National Insurance Institute.