Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich held an additional working meeting this evening at the Kirya in Tel Aviv with their teams on the issue of preparing the 2025 state budget.

The framework for the budget and the alternatives for formulating it, in order to support the war efforts on the battlefield and the home front and to advance the economy, were discussed. It was agreed that the budget would be approved by the end of 2024.