2025 budget to include freeze of annual social security benefit increase, Smotrich says
Smotrich presented what he deemed the "central principles and budget framework," and did not lay out expected budgets in specific ministries.
Finance Minister and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 22, 2024.(photo credit: OREN BEN HAKOON/FLASH90)ByELIAV BREUERUpdated: