It contains no innovations, no new taxed and no changes in the linkage between wages and the cost-of-living index. The later had been a feature of the original IL 122.5 billion budget for fiscal 1977-78 for which Rabin’s minority government failed to gain Knesset approval last month. A budget for the full year is expected to be drafted when the next government takes office aften the elections.
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