Netanyahu interrupts hospital stay for controversial law

Netanyahu interrupts hospital stay for controversial law

Only two days after his prostate removal Benjamin Netanyahu against the advice of his doctors from a hospital in Jerusalem to help his party adopted a controversial budget law. Hours later after the parliamentary crisis was averted, he returned to recover.

Netanyahus decision and their effects

Netanyahu spent the day in the Knesset - the Israeli parliament - and was committed to a controversial law that aims to regulate the distribution of dividends and the tax payments of companies in Israel. His presence proved to be decisive: the law was passed in a majority of the law after some right -wing parties within Netanyahus government tried to block it due to differences with the Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, which illustrates the internal tensions within the government.

The controversy around the budget law

Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security and Chairman of the extreme right -wing party Otzma Yehudit, is one of the parliamentary members who hold back the law with Smotrich through the financing of the police due to disagreements. Ben Gvir argues that the tax reform is deducted from salary increases for police officers, while Netanyahu and Smotrich emphasize that the police have already received significant salary increases in the past two years.

Netanyahu expressed the expectation that Ben Gvir “stops shaking the coalition and endangering the existence of the right -wing government at a decisive time in the history of Israel”.

dispute between Ben Gvir and Smotrich

Ben Gvir and Smotrich put the fault of each other when it comes to the need for Netanyahu to leave the hospital for the vote. Smotrich accused Ben Gvir to "get the prime minister out of the bedside and harm him". Ben Gvir, on the other hand, claimed that the matter would have been solved quickly if Smotrich had been ready to negotiate.

"It hurt me very much how finance minister Smotrich the prime minister, whom we all love, pulled out of his bedside, only because of his ego and his refusal to lead some negotiation with me, despite the request of the employees of the Prime Minister," said Ben Gvir in the Knesset.

diagnosis and treatment

A spokesman for the Hadassah Medical Center announced that Netanyahu decided to leave the hospital "against the medical assessment of the staff". On Saturday, Netanyahu's office said that an examination on Wednesday discovered a urinary tract infection due to a benign prostate enlargement that had been treated with antibiotics.

cnns Mike Schwartz contributed to this report.