Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks in the Knesset on August 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday derided the previous government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, after his cabinet voted to approve a national budget for the first time in three years.
“We’ve done in 36 hours what you didn’t do in 36 months, we passed a budget,” Bennett said during a heated Knesset plenary session, addressing the opposition.
“You would have preferred that we head to seventh elections, eighth elections,” he said, referring to Israel’s protracted political crisis that saw four rounds of elections from April 2019 until his government was formed in June.
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