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Israel Passes 1st State Budget in 3.5 Years, Avoiding Early Elections
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, from left, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Justice Minister Gideon Saar, and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli attend the plenum session and vote on the state budget in the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 3, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel Passes 1st State Budget in 3.5 Years, Avoiding Early Elections

The Israeli government narrowly passed by a vote of 61-59 the state budget for 2021 at 5 a.m. on Thursday after an all-night session during which dozens of votes were taken on aspects of the $194 billion budget bill. It is the state’s first budget in 3.5 years, and its passage prevents the automatic dissolution of the government and early elections.

The vote was along coalition lines, though former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the opposition leader,  accidentally voted with the coalition on a budget clause early in the morning.

Lawmakers are scheduled to reconvene at the Knesset later on Thursday to vote on the Economic Arrangements Law, the supplementary legislation to the State Budget needed to put it into effect, and then on the $183 billion 2022 state budget.

“A holiday for the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted at 5:52 a.m. on Thursday. “After years of chaos — we have formed a government, overcame the Delta variant and now, thank God, we passed a budget for Israel! Continuing forward at full strength.”

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