I see that another wave of fake news regarding the budget is starting to surface, as part of the false campaign against the "coalition funds." So let’s take a second and put things straight:
The approval of the budget by the finance committee is delayed because of difficulties that officials and legal advisers are causing for security elements in Judea and Samaria communities. We are not talking about one extra shekel, but the implementation of the government's decision that has already been passed and in which included the approval of the entire war budget.
Two months into the Swords of Iron War that completely changed the attitude to security scenarios in Judea and Samaria, two months after everyone understands that civil defense systems need to be strengthened, two months after many hundreds of millions of shekels (more than a billion!) were transferred to the budgeting of security elements and first response squads all over the country. Two months after, and not one shekel has been transferred to security forces in the communities of Judea and Samaria.
Why? Because some officials and legal advisors apparently decided that some people’s blood is redder than others, and that what is defined in the whole country as professional funds and easily, is defined in Judea and Samaria as coalition money and requires a series of procedures and professional opinions that so far have not been carried out.
If Israel had real media, it would ask how it is possible that half a million citizens in Judea and Samaria are being neglected and security budgets required for them have been delayed for two months. It would attack the officials who are causing difficulties and not the government that is trying to promote this.
I will not allow blood to be distinguished from blood. I will not allow to discriminate against half a million residents in Judea and Samaria and endanger their lives. Not on my shift.
When all the budgets allocated by the government are included in the budget that should be approved in the coming days in the Knesset, the budget will pass. A reality in which officials and legal advisors thwart the government's policy and avoid implementing budgets that the government ordered them to is unacceptable, and in the current context also life-threatening.
And again, there was not one extra shekel. Everything was approved by the government and should be in the law. Most of the amount in the Ministry of the Interior (for ongoing budgeting of the authorities, as is done throughout the country) and a small amount through the settlement division (security elements for the young communities in accordance with the plan prepared by the Central Command). Anyone who says otherwise is simply lying.
I hope that within the next day we will complete all procedures and terrible bureaucracies burdened by the officials and legal advisers and the entire budget will be approved.
