Israeli parliament approves 2022 budget

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JERUSALEM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Israel"s parliament approved a 2022 national budget on Friday by a vote of 59 to 56, giving a greater measure of fiscal stability to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett"s cross-partisan coalition government. The $146 billion spending package was ratified after the Knesset passed on Thursday a belated 2021 budget ahead of a deadline which, if unmet, could have triggered a snap election. L1N2RV1MO "We"ve put Israel back on track," Bennett said on Twitter. A political stalemate under his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, had meant that no budget had been approved in more than 3 and 1/2 years. Instead, Israel had a pro-rated version of the 2019 budget, an impediment to long-term economic planning. Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Clarence Fernandez

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