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Protesters accuse government of looting state coffers to meet demands from Haredi politicians, at demonstration organized by same activists behind anti-judicial overhaul campaign
Thousands of Israelis on Tuesday protested the allocation of funds to ultra-Orthodox Jews in the government's proposed state budget.Ahead of the budget votes beginning late Tuesday and continuing Wednesday, the drum-beating protesters, bearing Israeli flags, marched through Jerusalem to parliament, accusing the ruling coalition of "looting" the state's money.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already the country's longest-serving premier, took power again in December in a coalition with extreme right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties.
Israeli lawmakers passed an annual budget Wednesday with controversial allocations for ultra-Orthodox Jews, in a concession to a religious party in the governing coalition that drew protests from the…
Israel's parliament, the Knesset, allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to ultra-Orthodox Jews in the 2023-2024 state budget it approved on Wednesday,
Thousands of Israelis on Tuesday protested the allocation of funds to ultra-Orthodox Jews in the government's proposed state budget.