Left-wing and Arab legislators in Israel filed petitions to cancel the government’s economic austerity plan. The petitions were filed after the Knesset last week passed the austerity plan, which calls for budget cuts of $2.7 billion and raises taxes to fund the increased defense spending necessitated by the intifada.
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