Wages taking up more of the defense budget

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: December 23, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

EVELYN GORDON
Jerusalem Post
12-23-1994
WAGES have become an ever-greater portion of the defense budget in recent years, while the proportion of funds spent on development has dropped, a Treasury official told a joint meeting of two Knesset committees yesterday.

The Finance and Foreign Affairs and Defense committees were meeting to discuss the 1995 defense budget. The discussion will continue this morning.

Meir Gilad, the Treasury's deputy budget director, told the committee that in 1995, wages are slated to account for some NIS 4 billion of the NIS 25b. budget, or about 16 percent, one ...

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