Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's opposition National Unity Party, threatened Wednesday to shake the country if judicial reform bills are resubmitted. Gantz: "I understand that Netanyahu is drunk in power again, after passing a budget that will explode in the faces of all of us" The Knesset approved the state budget for the next two years by a majority of 64 deputies to 55 against, allocating tens of millions of dollars to ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Netanyahu announced on Monday that the state would allocate 250 million shekels to married Jewish men who pursue religious studies.