In a speech he delivered in the Knesset plenary, MK Yaakov Asher attacked Finance Minister Yair Lapid and his deputy Miki Levy for the agreement they reached with Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to limit the VAT exemption for those who purchase an apartment and have not served in the army - up to 600,000 NIS.
""I think the Minister of Finance would not have gone along with this plan in any way, if it didn't harm the Haredim. All his activity, all his satisfaction, everything is fueled by hatred, by discrimination. The solution they found is such a 'real' solution, to limit the Haredim from purchasing an apartment to 600,000 NIS. With this amount, you could buy an apartment, maybe on the moon...
""I want to tell you. Last night there was a plenary debate on tree felling. The Minister of the Environment discussed the issue from all sides. I want to ask the Minister, 'Do not allow tree felling, leave the option for Lapid to offer us to live there, after all, we are like monkeys to him.'".
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"In addition to the pathological hatred that guides the Minister of Finance, the Minister and his deputy simply don't know how to read numbers, one story after another. Just as they told us at the beginning of their term that the country was mired in a deficit of 45 billion NIS and in the end it turned out to be neither bears nor forest, so today the Minister of Finance continues to claim ignorantly that an apartment in Betar and Modi'in Illit is worth up to 600,000 NIS. After all, everyone knows that these figures are fabricated, unfounded, he doesn't bother to read a few numbers in a row. The entire activity of the Minister of Finance is fueled by hatred, hatred and more hatred.".
