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Jan. 24, 2021
Shaul Meridor, until recently the head of the budgets division in the Finance Ministry, and Keren Terner, until two months ago the director general of the Finance Ministry, quit their jobs in protest. They did so after they realized that the decision-making process during the coronavirus crisis – which was led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through his finance minister, Yisrael Katz – was motivated by political and extraneous considerations. On the last “Uvda” television program, both former officials laid out their harsh experiences as public servants exposed to the way decisions were made, until they could no longer take it and resigned.