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\r\n\tAfter a lull of a few months, the clash over the Israeli military budget escalated again last week at the regime's parliament. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tAlthough the final outcome is not clear, the amounts involved are huge — around 60 billion shekels ($17.4 billion) a year. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tMilitary officials are asking for a 2-billion-shekel supplement to this year’s budget and a boost of about 5 billion shekels for the proposed 2015 budget. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Israeli Finance Ministry opposes these requests, which would come at the expense of other areas in the budget. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tLast week 'Defense' Minister Moshe Ya’alon appeared in front of the committee along with the heads of his ministry’s budget and planning division. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe officials painted a picture of major financial distress in the Israeli army. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe offensive continued on Friday, when it was announced that Ya’alon and army chief of staff Benny Gantz were scrapping the annual civil defense drill. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe exercise is a relatively low-cost affair and one can assume that it will ultimately take place, but a senior defense source said the threat was not an idle one. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t“It’s simply the reality,” the source said. <\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t“The resources of the defense establishment and the IDF have run out.”<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-05-11 16:14:09","content_date_finish":"2014-05-11 16:14:09","content_date_register":"2014-05-11 16:14:09","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"122290","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1763414540","attach_date_register":"2014-05-11 16:14:14","attach_id":"119195","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"122","attach_img_height":"77","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"174","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 16:35:55","attach_title":"Battle over Israel\u2019s military budget heating up again","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]