Overview
- The cabinet approved roughly 30 billion shekels in additional defense funding financed by a 3% across-the-board cut to government ministries.
- Education, Health and Welfare budgets face reductions totaling about 422 million shekels, and Transportation will lose roughly 600 million shekels including future infrastructure projects.
- An additional uniform cut was approved to expand the National Security Ministry budget led by Itamar Ben Gvir.
- The decision follows a joint pledge by Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich to rush through a wartime budget that redirects tens of billions of shekels to the war effort and cancels planned public benefits.
- Officials said the Draft Law and other contested reforms will not move forward during the war, and ministers Ze’ev Elkin and Gideon Sa’ar voted against the cuts package.