A senior Finance Ministry official resigned on Wednesday claiming he could not be a party to the budget which the government passed only a short time earlier. The official, Ram Belinkov, had been caught on camera by Channel 10 on Tuesday evening criticizing the way the government was handling the budget discussions.
According to Belinkov, he had already informed Finance Minister Yuval Shteinitz of his intention to resign Tuesday morning. He thanked the Finance Ministry staff for their hard work and cooperation while he had been in state service.