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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: July 27, 2007 |
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday revoked a budget cut for the Absorption Ministry that would have decreased benefits for new immigrants by 20 percent, Army Radio reported, according to Ynet. Olmert, however, approved legislation to cancel a customs grant provided to immigrants from impoverished regions.
"I am happy over the prime minister's and foreign minister's decision to cancel the cut to the absorption benefit package," Absorption Ministry Director-General Erez Halfon told Army Radio. He continued, however, that his ministry would fight "with all its might" against the cuts that were upheld.
"[These cuts] would constitute a message to all olim?that the state of Israel is shutting its gates to them," Halfon said.
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