Hamodia is a reasonable source for clean Israeli news in English (if not always accurate), even if their “Charedi” perspective on important questions is always disgusting:
Knesset Votes Salary Raise to Ministers
The Knesset Finance Committee has acted to correct a disparity in official incomes, bringing ministerial salaries in line with those of Knesset members, whose salaries have come to exceed those of ministers.
The anomaly was due to the fact that lawmakers’ salaries were linked to the average wage, while ministers’ were pegged to the consumer price index. At the time that linkage was created, the CPI was rising faster than wages; but after the situation reversed, MKs began earning more than ministers.
Oy vey! How about we lower their salaries, instead, to motivate them to stop hurting us?! Except, well, who’s “We”?
Under the new regime, ministers will receive a pay raise of 5,000 monthly, and 5,500 to the prime minister, at a cost to the taxpayers of about 2 million shekels.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s salary will now be 49,600 a month. Ministers’ salaries will go up from 39,200 to 44,200, according to Ynet on Monday.
Oh, is that all?!
Opposition MKs were opposed, saying that lawmakers should not set their own salaries. “It keeps happening that MKs make decisions on their own affairs in a complete conflict of interest. It’s unreasonable,” said MK Mickey Rosenthal (Zionist Camp). “We need to appoint an external committee.”
Haha!
Explain to me R e a l – S l o w – N o w how the State appoints an, um, “external committee”.
P.S., I have since found major, critical errors in Hamodia’s online reporting, and wouldn’t recommend it ever, to anyone.