MK Uri Ariel (National Union) has an idea: “Reduce Knesset Members’ salaries by 5%.”
Ariel, in his fourth term as Member of Knesset, has asked Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin to act towards cutting the salaries of the 120 parliamentarians. Last week, the Cabinet resolved to cut ministers’ salaries by 5%.
Ariel wrote to Rivlin that cutting their salaries “would save the national treasury the equivalent of 4.5 Knesset Members. It would also express the concern and participation of the MKs in the plight of all the rest of Israel’s citizens, many of whom have been laid off and have no work.”