THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Proposed Israel Budget Cuts Raise Ire of Defense Minister

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Tha Cabinet's economic
committee wrestled incon-
clusively over how to divide
the IL 405 billion budget for
the next fiscal year between
the various ministries.
No agreement was
reached after 11 hours of
wrangling during which
Premier Menahem Begin
was summoned from his
home to support a demand
for cuts in the defense
budget. But Begin proved to
be of little help and the issue
was deferred to the full
Cabinet meeting Sunday.
The problem is that Fi-
nance Minister Yigal Hur-
witz has declared the IL 405
billion to be the absolute
maximum which, if ex-
ceeded, would lead to un-
controllable inflation.

The budget was ap-
proved as a framework
within which each minis-
try will have to find the
funds to finance its oper-
ations. But, as the eco-
nomic committee found,
the budget is not big
enough to cover what
each minister insists is
the absolute minimum.

The major confrontation
is between the defense
budget- and the housing
budget. Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman did not
attend the committee's ses-
sion. When he was informed
by telephone that his
budget would have to be
pared to allow for additional
housing money, he was
furious.
"If anyone decides on cuts
let him run the Defense
Ministry," Weizman de-
clared, a remark that some
of his colleagues took as a
threat to resign if his budget
is tampered with.
Weizman remained
adamant in a clash last
week with Begin. The pre-
mier warned him that his
unbending attitude could
lead to a Cabinet crisis and
urged that he agree to a two
percent reduction of the de-
fense budget that presently
stands at IL 130 billion. It
represents about one-third
of the proposed IL 405 bil-
lion for the next fiscal year
beginning April 1.

But Weizman refused
to entertain any further
cuts. He said the defense
budget had been agreed
to by himself and Hur-
witz and to reduce it by
even two percent would
be courting danger.

In a television interview,
Weizman said the defense

Czech Population

LONDON — The Inter-
national Council of Jews
from Czechoslovakia re-
ports that Jews registered
with the organized Jewish
communities in Czechos-
lovakia total 6,720 persons.
The ICJC believes there
are 10,000-15,000 Jews in
the country. The American
Jewish Year Book esti-
mated the 1976 Jewish
population at 12,000.

It is not he who gives
abuse that affronts, but the
view that we take of it as
insulting.

billion cut would result in
the lay-offs of up to 1,000
workers in the defense and
allied industries. He noted
that the army will have to
absorb 100 new tanks and
100 new artillery pieces this
year.

budget had been cut by
eight percent over the last
htree years and that he had
done his utmost to hold
down dollar expenditures in
favor of the local defense in-
dustry.
He warned that an IL 1

Those who insist on a cut,
Weizman warned, had bet-
ter look at the massive
build-up of Soviet weaponry
in Syria and other Arab
countries which include the
most modern T-72 tanks
and MIG-25 planes.

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