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MKs to receive more perks
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LIAT COLLINS
Jerusalem Post
01-21-1997
Less than a month after they voted to raise their wages, MKs yesterday granted themselves up to $10,000 a year to rent office space in their home towns.
The House Committee yesterday authorized the proposal by MKs Meir Sheetrit (Likud) and Haggai Merom (Labor), who said the offices are necessary to carry out their public work on Sundays and Thursdays and during Knesset recesses. The amount would be allotted as a monthly allowance of $1,000 or a maximum up to $10,000 a year.
It was supported by four other committee members - chairman Raphael Pinhasi ...
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