Israel’s Parliament sat until after midnight this morning to pass a budget of 1,876, 350, 000-pounds ($1,050,560, 000) for the new fiscal year before recessing for the Passover holiday. The recess is for five weeks. Opposition parties voted against the budget for the next year starting April 1.
The Knesset will resume sessions on May 8 and will sit for about two months, adjourning around July 14, a month before the new elections for the Fifth Knesset. The fourth Knesset, the tenure of which was to have continued until October 1963, voted Tuesday to dissolve itself as the climax to the Government crisis precipitated January 31 by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s resignation.
Before adjournment, Speaker Kaddish Luz announced that contracts for the construction of a new House building would be awarded by May and the building was expected to be completed by the end of 1963.
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