Elections? Katz against Benny Gantz: "Your refusal to support the budget is an economic attack""

December 17, 2020   

Finance Minister Yisrael Katz addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning (Thursday) with a request to submit the state budget for 2020, which he submitted on December 7, 2020, to the Government Secretariat for government approval this coming Sunday. Aharon from Beit Shemesh receives 6,400 shekels every month because of depression. Maybe you deserve it too?  The minister noted that he seeks to submit the budget for Knesset approval by December 23, 2020, as stipulated by law, thereby preventing unnecessary elections. At the same time, Minister Katz turned to Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz, requesting that he support the proposal and continue discussions on the timetables for advancing the 2021 budget, along with the important economic reform laws that are ready to be submitted, while freezing Gantz's support for advancing the law to advance the elections. "Your failure to support the budget and dragging the State of Israel into an unnecessary election campaign, due to political arguments, constitutes national irresponsibility and a direct economic attack on the citizens of the State of Israel," Katz noted. According to him, "The State of Israel, which is on the verge of a third lockdown and at the beginning of the national vaccination campaign, needs a stable and strong government that works for the citizens of the State of Israel - while exiting the health, economic and social crisis, and we must all rise up and prevent an expensive, harmful and unnecessary election campaign.".