MK Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beiteinu) says the bill she sponsored to prosecute October 7 terrorists passed overwhelmingly on May 11, and the cabinet approved its budget on June 2, but the coalition is stalling final approval in the Knesset Finance Committee amid internal infighting, holding the budget hostage, according to a statement she issued Tuesday.
MK Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beiteinu) on Tuesday accused the coalition of delaying final approval of the budget needed to prosecute the October 7 terrorist operatives, despite the bill having passed the Knesset and the cabinet having approved the funds. In a statement, she noted that the IDF has completed its preparations and only a technical approval by the Knesset Finance Committee remains. The budget is being held hostage, she charged, because coalition members are preoccupied with infighting and ego battles rather than their duties.
The issue follows a related but distinct track on accountability for the October 7 massacre: a separate bill establishing a political commission of inquiry was advancing in the Knesset in early June, and on June 17, MKs Rothman and Malinovsky toured the construction site of a special courthouse near Jerusalem for trying Nukhba operatives, as The Zioneer reported. Malinovsky's latest criticism targets the funding mechanism for those prosecutions rather than the inquiry track.
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