Arab council heads to go on strike due to withheld funds
Israeli Arab council heads are protesting Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's move to withhold previously promised funds and threaten to not open schools in September.
Arab citizens protest the budget cut in the Arab sector, outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)ByTROY O. FRITZHANDUpdated: