During a Knesset Finance Committee session on the 2026 budget, Chairman Hanoch Milivitsky cut off MK Naama Lazimi as she raised questions about oversight, telling her policy questions are 'not relevant here,' according to reports from the session.
During a Knesset Finance Committee session on the 2026 budget, Chairman Hanoch Milivitsky rebuffed MK Naama Lazimi's line of questioning about oversight of exemption institutions. 'What is relevant is the surpluses,' Milivitsky said. 'Policy questions, my grandmother and my aunt, their place is not here right now.' The exchange highlights the tense atmosphere in the committee as it debates budget adjustments.
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