""Civil servants are working to thwart government decisions": Netanyahu against the senior Treasury official

July 17, 2020   

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the head of the budget division at the Ministry of Finance, Shaul Meridor, on his Facebook page this morning (Friday), claiming that he is working to thwart the plan to distribute grants to Israeli citizens. How did he manage to get a prestigious degree without preparatory school or prerequisites? The secret is inside '"It is inconceivable that officials are campaigning against decisions made in the government and working to thwart them. We will not accept this," the prime minister wrote on Facebook - and shared a post by MK Shlomo Kari against Meridor. MK Kari claimed that the head of the budget department is torpedoing Netanyahu's decisions: "We have already seen the phenomenon in which officials try to control the country against elected officials. The head of the budget department at the Ministry of Finance, Shaul Meridor, has turned this into an art. "He is torpedoing Prime Minister Netanyahu's decisions to transfer more money and aid to Israeli citizens - to the self-employed, business owners, employees and the unemployed. "In this difficult time of crisis and in general, this must not be accepted in any way. The job of officials is to carry out government policy. Any attempt to apply their own policy contrary to the government's policy constitutes bureaucratic subversion." Kari added: "Moreover, a press briefing against the government and its leader and conducting a delegitimization campaign against the government's policy make the reality unbearable." The senior Finance Minister sharply criticized the Prime Minister's plan for distributing grants to Israeli citizens. As part of a discussion by the Aharon Institute at the Tiomkin School of Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Meridor said: "My concern is that there are no frameworks and we are spending money that is not designated and not directed at a specific purpose, when the costs are very high." Meridor is the son of former Minister Dan Meridor, and his mother is economist Dr. Liora Meridor.