Chairman Yoel Hasson of the Zionist Union Knesset faction said on Sunday, "The government continues to evade its obligations to the disabled and continues to abandon the disabled to hunger."
He was responding to the decision of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to postpone a Zionist Union bill to raise the allowances for the disabled by a month. Hasson added, "It is unthinkable that the government would reject the bill, which includes the full outline agreed upon by both the government and representatives of the disabled, and [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu and [Coalition Chairman David] Bitan promised that the disabled would see the increase in their bank accounts as early as January 1, 2018. The Zionist Union faction will approach the Knesset House Committee to grant the bill an exemption from introduction requirements."