Mansour Abbas doubles budget for Arab sector
The main achievement of the Ra'am leader in the coalition negotiations has been doubling the budget for the five-year plan to develop Israel's Arab sector.
The amount that the new Israeli government is committed to investing directly in the Arab sector amounts to NIS 35 billion, with a readiness to expand investment in infrastructures in the future. The main achievement of Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas in the talks with the heads of the coalition Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett has been to agree a budget of NIS 30 billion for the five-year plan for developing Israel's Arab sector - double the budget previously allocated to the plan.