''Zir Gur' left alone? Senior Likud officials estimate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will emerge at the end of the day with a significant "spoil" - in the form of the apparent support of another MK from Agudat Yisrael in the budget.
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According to a report today (Tuesday) by Matti Tochfeld in Israel Hayom, MK Moshe Roth of United Torah Judaism, who last Thursday signed a letter to the prime minister, together with Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf and MK Yaakov Tesler, in which they made it clear that they would not vote in favor of the state budget if the conscription law was not enacted before the budget was approved - withdrew his support following the conversation with Netanyahu.
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In the coalition, on the one hand, attempts will continue to isolate Goldknopf and Tesler, and on the other hand, to try to increase support for the budget, for example through MK Almog Cohen, who resigned from Otzma Yehudit, even if unofficially, and may support or abstain from voting on the budget - which will further widen the gap and ensure a more solid majority in the vote.
Tonight, Cohen met with Netanyahu, who pledged his support for Cohen's law, which is going up for first reading in the Knesset today, to establish another international airport in Nevatim near Beersheba, a city where he lived most of his life.
However, Deputy Minister Avi Maoz of the Noam faction announced that he too may join the opponents of the budget. "Right now I will not vote for the budget," he said. "Although I am in dialogue with the Minister of Education, this matter has not been sorted out. For years, the budget for Torah studies and schools for girls of our public has not been sorted out, parents pay for education in the schools. The national religious institutions only receive 40%. Unfortunately, this injustice has not been corrected, and therefore I have announced that I will not vote for the budget.".
It's safe to say that this demand will eventually find its solution.
