Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson on Wednesday estimated the cost of the war in Lebanon up to now at NIS 7 billion.
Hirschson said he would ask the Knesset Finance Committee to allocate an additional NIS 2.5 billion to the Defense Ministry budget.
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