Empathy cannot come in the place of policy. There must be a strong middle-class of working people who pay taxes, and from these taxes we will be able to help those who do not have. No child will go hungry in the State of Israel, as long as we are here.
This is a budget of hope. It is true that there are budget cuts and an increase in taxes. But it will be for a short amount of time. There is a problem, and we must fix it. It is a short thing It will come, it will hurt, and it will go. Within two years every Israeli will feel the change - in housing, in sharing the burden, in cost of living, and in the feeling that he lives in a fair country that relates to its money with reverence and does not just give it to sectors and people close to the plate..
-- Finance Minister Yair Lapid
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