It is easy to understand why the controversy over the 2023-2024 budget passed in the early hours last Wednesday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has not received the attention it deserves. Five months of unprecedented protests sparked by the judicial reforms proposed by the governing coalition in early January combined with the Israel Defense Forces’ deftly executed five-day, early-May Gaza operation, known as Shield and Arrow, preoccupied the nation and foreign observers. Yet the budget’s extraordinary outlays for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community intensify the fears not…
Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
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