Bennett coalition set for post-budget clashes


The MKs in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s governing coalition celebrated the passage of the state budgets for 2021 and 2022 over the weekend, but disagreements over a dozen sensitive issues that were postponed until after the budget will soon cause internal disputes.

Bennett and Lapid declined to address the key issues in their joint news conference on Saturday night, preferring to only say that the issues would be resolved in a meeting of party leaders that would take place soon. But sources close to Bennett and Lapid admitted on Sunday night that no timetable had been set for such a meeting, and they were in no hurry to convene it.

“There is no specific timing,” a Lapid associate said. “Every issue will be considered on its own.”

But sources in other coalition parties said they would insist that such a meeting be held in order to ensure the kind of give and take that would allow each coalition party to claim it had served its voters.

The first post-budget disputes have emerged over settlements. After Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev (Labor) criticized Bennett on the issue of the Evyatar outpost, Meretz MKs Mossi Raz and Gabi Laski wrote Bennett, warning him that Construction Minister Ze’ev Elkin’s plans to build in the Jordan Valley crossed their red line.

Labor intends to push for a change in the Finance Ministry’s preferred communities list, taking out wealthy communities in Judea and Samaria and adding more communities in the Galilee and Negev that would receive special benefits. 

Meretz MKs were also disturbed…



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