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Israel Approves $700 Million Budget Cut for Defense Needs
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The Israeli government will approve a 2.6 billion shekel budget cut on Sunday for urgent defense procurement. This cut will be applied uniformly across all government ministries, affecting about 5% of their development and procurement budgets. This follows a previous 1 billion shekel cut for Apache helicopters, which primarily impacted a plan for Arab society. The Finance Ministry's suggestion to use coalition funds for the cut was rejected.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Israel's government will approve a 2.6 billion shekel budget cut for defense on Sunday.
- The cut is for urgent defense procurement and is the second in four days.
- Unlike a previous cut, this reduction will be uniform across all government ministries.
- The cut represents approximately 5% of each ministry's development and procurement budget.
- A proposal to use coalition funds for the cut was rejected by the government.
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