The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has increased aid for Israel over what the Reagan Administration has proposed. The committee last Thursday approved providing Israel with $910 million in economic aid, compared to $750 million recommended by the Administration and the $850 million approved by a House subcommittee earlier this month for fiscal 1984.
The Senate committee resolution, which was introduced by Charles Percy (R. III.), the committee chairman, and Claibome Pell (D. Rl), its ranking Democrat, also provided as a grant $850 million in economic aid and $850 million of the $1.2 billion in military aid, the same as the House did. The Administration had recommended only $425 million of military aid and all of its proposed $750 million in economic aid as a grant.
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