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شبكة فلسطين الإخبارية
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The Israeli government has approved an additional 4.9% reduction in the budgets of government ministries for 2026, amounting to a total of 2.6 billion shekels, to fund "urgent security procurements." The cuts include budgets for education, transportation, and internal security, without affecting coalition budgets, and require approval from the Knesset Finance Committee to be implemented. These measures follow an earlier decision to cut 1.03 billion shekels from the Arab community development budgets, aimed at increasing military and security funding. It is expected that approximately 15 billion shekels will be allocated to the security budget before these new cuts. Additionally, there are plans to deduct an extra 0.5% from the budgets of various ministries starting in 2027 to fund a plan to prosecute Hamas elements, with an estimated cost of 776 million shekels from 2027 to 2033. This plan includes establishing infrastructure for trials and hiring around 370 personnel. A vote on this initiative will take place at a later session, despite warnings regarding the prison service's unpreparedness to manage these trials, which are expected to begin as early as the first quarter of 2028. Some ministries have expressed opposition to this additional reduction, especially the Ministries of Security, Environment, Agriculture, and Social Welfare.
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