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Shinui to Receive NIS 625 Million for Supporting the Budget

By Eliezer Rauchberger

The Knesset Finance Committee approved budget transfers totaling NIS 1.7 billion ($390 million) Monday, including NIS 625 million ($140 million) promised to Shinui in payment for its support of the state budget.

Seven MKs voted in favor of the budget transfers, five voted against and two abstained. Before the vote harsh words were exchanged between Shinui representatives and other members of the committee protesting the party's extortion of money from state coffers.

The enormous sums handed out to Shinui have been earmarked as follows: NIS 153 million for student discounts, NIS 130 million for universities, NIS 40 million for "science," NIS 30 million for discharged soldiers, NIS 23 million for immigrants, NIS 22 million for the war against the carnage on the roads, NIS 40 million for Jewish pluralism, NIS 75 million for tax breaks for the middle class, and more.

An additional NIS 116 million was given to the Ministry of Tourism, NIS 32 million to the Ministry of Agriculture, NIS 74 million to the Ministry of Health to increase the medication basket, NIS 92 million to the Ministry of Housing, NIS 410 million to the Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Industry for research and development, and funding for the Ministry of Education and for higher education.

Shinui left the government because Sharon agreed to restore NIS 290 million that had been cut from chareidi institutions, less than half the amount that Shinui got as a payoff for supporting the budget.

 

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