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Article: Slavin: All ministries facing cuts in '98
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- Jerusalem Post
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- August 15, 1997
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DAVID HARRIS
Jerusalem Post
08-15-1997
All government ministries, including the Defense, Education and Labor and Social Affairs ministries, will have to cut their budgets next year, Finance Ministry Director-General Shmuel Slavin said yesterday in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
This is the first admission that the Treasury has no intention of meeting any of the ministerial demands for increases, such as that of Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai for an addition of NIS 1.5 billion to his ministry budget.
Mordechai has expressed his anger at the Treasury's lack of cooperation during four cabinet meetings over the last three weeks. The defense establishment is ...