Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in passing a budget through the parliament, or Knesset, on Wednesday after an all-night voting marathon that preserved his government for the foreseeable future.
There had been talk of Netanyahu’s government potentially collapsing if his coalition partners could not agree on spending priorities, the most contentious of which was a proposal to redistribute commercial property taxes from wealthier cities to poorer municipalities with more religious populations and less business investment.
The passage buys Netanyahu and his government another 18 months until the Knesset must approve another budget and puts to rest the coalition’s largest internal point of contention. The budget also preserves a status quo that is resented by many secular Israelis in which religious students are able to obtain exemptions from military service. Past efforts to resolve the issue have failed, thanks partly to Israel’s Supreme Court, whicha compromise in 2017. The Court’s intervention in legislative affairs has fueled enthusiasm for judicial reforms, which Netanyahu is attempting to pursue against strong opposition.
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