Jerusalem – Moshe Kahlon, head of the Kulanu party, cancelled his Thursday meetings with Likud representatives that were meant to help form the next government coalition.
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Kahlon’s decision came after Netanyahu had expressed willingness Wednesday night to give MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) the chairmanship of the Knesset Finance Committee and Shas leader Arye Deri the chairmanship of the Interior Ministry’s construction planning authority.
Kahlon said that the decision to cancel negotiations came “after the Likud’s political maneuver to hand out jobs at the expense of providing the needed tools to bring down housing costs and deal with the cost of living, before the coalition negotiations teams had even sat down.”
In response, the Likud party called Kahlon’s actions confusing and unnecessary. “The place to clarify issues like this is around the negotiation table.”
In addition to what would have been a meeting with Kulanu, Likud negotiators are meeting all day Thursday with representatives of Bayit Yehudi, Shas, Yisrael Beytenu, and United Torah Judaism.
The aim is to form a new governing coalition by Independence Day Eve (April 22). The holiday coincides with the deadline for forming a coalition after the likeliest candidate receives a 28-day mandate from the president. If Netanyahu does not form a coalition by then, he can ask Rivlin for another 14 days, but the president would be under no obligation to grant it.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Kahlon, their first meeting in two years and said he would keep his promise to appoint Kahlon finance minister and also give Kulanu other socioeconomic portfolios.
“Your success is everyone’s success,” Netanyahu reportedly told Kahlon in the meeting.
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He is 100% correct.If you give the frum parties the housing and finance minstry it totally defeats the purpose and misson of Kahlon’s party. To solve the housing crisis and other economic issues you must address the working middle class. You cannot solve income inequality by handouts to the non working poor. The way to solve the problem is through lower taxes for middle and low income earners (not high income) and less subsidies for those that don’t work. One ideal that Lapid floated made alot of sense. If both parents work then they get tax free homes for first time home buyers. Israel should also rethink the way they give out child subsidies. Rather than just handing out subsidies to anyone that has a child, it should be in the form of earned income tax credits. Basiclly you only get the money if you work. There should be a requirement for both parents (if there are two parents) to work as well. (yes you can excuse nusring mothers etc.. but there must be a real valid excuse)
both #1 and #2 are right, you cant have parasites in a society and you cant give away that which is yours and then cry you cant afford to buyt it back. Israel needs true Jewish leadership with sechel in the Kahane way.
What is the basis for comments that tell of a recovered U.S.economy and of no cuts in Medicare?