Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel s senior analyst.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center wearing black mask, during a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 25, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
For nearly forty years, an Israeli state budget has always come into the world in two parts. One half of the budget is a bill with all the numbers: endless columns of projected income vs. expenditures, drilled down to each agency and program.
The other half is known only by the clumsy name
Hok Hahesderim, or the “Arrangements Law.” This bill runs to a few hundred pages of dense prose delineating the many structural, institutional and policy reforms needed to make the numbers in the other bill work.
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