Knesset Finance Committee okays huge payout to West Bank settlements

21.03.2012                      27.Adar. 5772

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Knesset Finance Committee okays huge payout to West Bank settlements

In brief meeting, MKs vote to tens of millions worth of budget transfers.

The Knesset Finance Committee Tuesday approved the reallocation of NIS 61 million from the state budget, in a meeting that lasted less than an hour and with only five committee members in attendance.
Inter alia, the committee approved an extra NIS 25 million for the Jewish Agency to use beyond Israel's 1967 borders, including NIS 1.5 million for infrastructure in settlements in the Hebron Hills, NIS 8 million for the Golan Research Institute in Katzrin, and NIS 7.6 million for public buildings in the Jordan Valley and the Binyamin district….