Minister Threatens to Quit Over Budget
Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign minister said he would resign in protest of the proposed 1998 budget, a rebellion that threatened to bring down the beleaguered prime minister’s teetering government. David Levy, the leading supporter of the peace process in Netanyahu’s fractious coalition, complained that the $58-billion budget did not address the growing problems of Israel’s poor. Without the support of Levy’s Gesher faction and other coalition rebels, Netanyahu’s support in the 120-member Knesset could drop below the threshold needed to govern. The budget vote was postponed until Sunday.
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