Finance Committee chairman MK Yakov Litzman: Heavy pressure is being applied for me to leave quietly.
Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Yakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) said that if the government added NIS 500 million in child benefits, he would resign from his post. “I’ve always said this. I’ll compromise. Instead of NIS 1 billion, I agree to NIS 500 million,” he said.
Litzman said heavy pressure was being applied for him to leave quietly. Asked what the government would do, he replied, “I really don’t know what they’re going to do. This proves that I’m not an obstructionist; I only want to help large families. It also puts the onus on the government to prove that it isn’t deaf to children in poverty.”
Litzman proposes raising the child benefit for families with more than four children to NIS 250 per child. He is asking for a lot less than Gil Pensioners Party wants to vote to oust him from the committee chairmanship.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on March 7, 2007
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