The Knesset recessed for a Passover vacation tonight after approving a 1957-58 total budget of 969 million pounds by a vote of 48 to 23.
The budget, approved in a high-speed second reading in 48 hours, provides 182 million pounds for defense expenditures and 58 million pounds for special expenditures
The proposed fence along the Israel Gaza Strip demarcation line to keep fedayeen out of Israel will cost an estimated $80,000, it was learned here today.
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