IDF Facing Budget Disaster; Ya’alon: ‘The Money Is Gone’

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yaalon-gantzIDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz is being careful of voicing the facts publicly, but Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has stepped up to the plate and told the truth of reality for him.

“The money is gone. The defense apparatus is in crisis, and we need to loosen up the defense budget now,” Ya’alon said, according to Yediot Achhronot.

Military officials have been debating whether or not to go to the media to address the problem. Their fear was not only public confrontation in front of the political leadership, but primarily the possible harm to the IDF’s deterrence capability. There were some who put the pressure on Gantz in the hope that he wouldn’t come to his senses too late, just like when the career officers were laid off or when Israelis demanded that he implement the chareidi draft law, according to Yediot.

Gantz would rather hold these discussions behind closed doors and approval rating show that he may have gained a few points with the public, but the army lost.

Until a few years ago, the IDF had a four year defense budget plan, but during his tenure Gantz hasn’t managed to approve even one, while the organization that is supposed to be capable of looking a whole decade ahead has been forced to work one year at a time.

That isn’t the end of it: In the last year NIS 4.5 billion was cut from the budget and the IDF set a new record: they created a 6-month plan and in the middle of the year were forced to plan the next.

Gantz said that he warned of the deceptive peace while Hezbollah and other factions in Gaza armed themselves.

“We’re not trying to scare people,” said Brigadier General Agay Yechezkel and commander of the division in charge of the military plans at a committee meeting, according to Yediot. “We will be forced to stop the army.”

Ya’alon added criticism for the managers of the defense budget. “From this month on we’ve entered a difficult period. A lot of harm has been done to training and we’re going to decrease in our level of readiness. The discussion over the defense budget is managed like a Turkish bazaar. Also, we do we have to pay a nonsensical tax on fuel for tanks and planes when public transportation is exempt from it?” said Ya’alon. Read more at Ynet.

{Matzav.com Israel}


7 COMMENTS

  1. Moshe Yaalon and Benny Gantz are not involved in the campaign against chareidim. If they had their way, they would have left things the way they were before Lapid Jr. and Naftali Bennett entered the government.

  2. well then y do u want more people in the army if u cant even support who you have in it u FOOLS!!!!!!!

  3. There is money for settlements – including infrastructure for illegal outposts – but none for the IDF? Whose government is it, anyway? Do only the Israelis who live in Yesha count, not the ones in Tel Aviv? Time to check our priorities.

  4. “There is money for settlements – including infrastructure for illegal outposts – but none for the IDF?”

    This reflects the priorities of Naftali Bennett and the Jewish Home party. They haven’t gotten the message that Greater Israel has been dead for over two decades.

  5. If Israel would stop paying bribe money to the PA there would be plenty of money for Israel’s budget to do what they have to do. When will be the time to stop giving them elec., gas, and I suppose Israel takes out their garbage too. They want to be independent let them try it and see when they will come back crying.

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