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Israeli Finance Minister Plans $300 Million Defense Cut
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, JERUSALEM


Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Aug. 8 unveiled plans for a $300 million reduction in defense spending as part of $1.3 billion in cuts in the coming annual budget.

Netanyahu told reporters the ouster of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq meant that Israel can now contemplate a smaller outlay on defense spending, even though the defense ministry is in fact asking for a rise in its budget.

“Cutting the defense budget is preferable to cutting the budgets of the other ministries which have been through difficult times in recent years,” he said.

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