Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz strongly attacked the IDF's and Defense Ministry’s moves in the media as part of their fight against planned budget cuts, Channel 2 News reported on Sunday.
The report quoted an official in the Prime Minister’s Office as having said that “all these titles – the cancellation of Iron Dome, cessation of training, canceling flight hours – are a ridiculous and pathetic manipulation.”
The Finance Ministry, meanwhile, was quoted in the report as having said, “The army could not care less about government decisions and is trying to reverse them.”