P.M Bennett after passing the budget: We have the ability of the coalition partners to work together

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman convened a special press conference on Saturday, after the coalition succeeded in passing the state budget for the years 2022-2021. "The budget for 2022-2021 has passed." Bennett opened solemnly. He emphasized the ability of the coalition partners to work together, in a way that ensured political and economic stability for the State of Israel.
"We have completed the complex move of expelling Israel from three years of instability," Bennett said. "Quietly, consistently, working together, we brought the ship to a safe shore. The government is stable. It will fill its days, and now we have to look at the long line of missions each in their own field and start working."
"The great test of this government, of all of us, is restraint," Bennett continued. The next task is to take advantage of the stability to face challenges and problems that have been neglected for years. Housing prices, traffic jams and the cost of living, the rampant crime, the loss of governance in the Negev. "Do not procrastinate, do not despair in advance, even if the tasks are big and will take time - start."
Immediately afterwards, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who thanked his colleagues for the cooperation, said that the past budget was "extremely social", despite the criticism leveled against him by the opposition. "I do not remember a government with a level of cooperation between ministers as in this government," Lieberman declared. "It's true that there are frictions and conflicts but it does not matter, by and large, and I saw it in the budget, there was a level of cooperation and mutual guarantee like I have never seen before."
"This budget has two big lines," Lieberman continued, "political stability and economic growth. These are great assets that must be maintained. This is the most social budget in the history of the State of Israel, NIS 11 billion that we invest in socio-national strength, "The fight against domestic violence, increasing the grant for Holocaust survivors and a long list of clauses."
"We made a decision, instead of stabbing each other in the back to keep each other on our backs. We are responsible people, we do not have time for declines on Twitter, we have a country to manage," Lapid said. "We pledged to bring sanity back, to form a government, to pass a budget. We are living up to our commitment."
Immediately afterwards, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid agreed with Lieberman's remarks, and even sharply criticized the attacks suffered by Knesset Speaker Miki Levy during the budget debate. " The wind, it's unbearable, "he said. Mickey is a member of a whole family, his parents were in the Irgun, he served the State of Israel all his life. People shouted terrible curses at him for just fulfilling his role. "Whoever sat next to him and heard everything, and did not silence the incitement and cursing, is just as responsible."
"Not everything can be fixed in one night, but we have also laid the foundations here for everything we will deal with in the near future," the alternate prime minister promised. "This government will take care of and put money in retirees, regular soldiers, unemployment benefits for the self-employed as well."
Immediately after the statements, the three held a press conference in which they answered questions on various topics. Prominent among them was the question of rotation, Bennett replied that "the rotation will take place on time" and that "the government will complete its days." Lapid responded: "I am convinced." In the political context, Bennett and Lapid even thanked Bnei Gantz, whose absence was prominent in the event. "He is a vital partner in the work," they said.
The three then turned to other issues on the agenda. To the Walla question! Regarding the opening of the American consulate in Jerusalem, Lapid replied: "We oppose the opening of a US consulate in Jerusalem. This is a principled opposition, not related to politics." Bennett later joined this and clarified that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people and that Israel opposes the move. "Not on everything we agree with the Americans but we need to know how to do it. We are not looking for the drama or the quarrel, but to stand up for our interests in front of a friend and ally."
In response to criticism of the use of coalition funds, Lapid said that "if it was up to me alone it would not be, but it was not up to me alone". Lieberman explained that "there is a lack of understanding of what coalition funds are. These funds will go into the budget base, as soon as it goes into the budget base the ministry manages it."
As for the issue of the declaration of terrorist organizations, Lapid contradicted the claim that the United States has not been updated. "There was a process in front of the American lottery." Bennett added: "We do not agree with the Americans on everything, but we need to know how to do it. We are not looking for drama or quarrel, but to stand up for our interests in front of a friend and ally. "
Another issue came up at the press conference after two appointments were originally published in recent weeks by Lapid in the Histadrut and appointing his wife-in-law as a director of Beckel and her second cousin as chairman of a department in the Zionist Organization. Volunteer, all the appointments we have made are professional, "he said.
The Likud said in response to the press conference that "after the transfer of Bennett and Lapid's bad budget - which raises prices, imposes taxes and transfers tens of billions of shekels from Israeli citizens to the Islamic movement - the chances of overthrowing the government increase. The right-wing opposition will overthrow the dangerous government Faster than they think. "
The state budget for 2022 was approved on Friday night in the second and third readings in the Knesset plenum, by a majority of 59 MKs who voted for and against 56 who voted against.
Voting continued until late at night after the coalition earlier lost one of them and sought to re-enact the budget item that fell. The approval of the budget may now give the Bennett-Lapid government political stability. "Tonight - we have put Israel back on track," wrote Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.