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2016-11-02

Vote on a 359.7 Billion Shekel Budget to the Israeli Government in 2017

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Translated by Sabrin Qadah 

Israeli Minister of Finance, Moshe kahlon, presents the Israeli government's budget to the Knesset for a vote on Wednesday, according to what Hebrew sites published.

These sites indicated that the Israeli Knesset will vote on the preliminary reading of the government's annual budget, after the government has decided in the previous meetings for the budget to be for one year rather than two years. the Knesset will also vote on the government's budget for 2017, which amounts to 359.7 net billion shekels. The 2018 budget will reach 376.7 net billion shekels.

These sites added that the military budget will rise to 5.3% , that constitutes 9.5 billion shekels, while the health budget will go up to $9 billion, including 500 million shakels for medications. The housing budget will rise to $ 20 billion shakels, transportations to14,3 billion, education to 2 billion and social Affairs to 1.7 billion shekels.