They can lead only to financial instability, and burden future generations with pension allocations. During the prolonged delay between the presentation of the budget and its approval, none of the PA's financial units received even one of 12 disbursements due. This is because the Finance Ministry is using such delays as a tool for dealing with deficits. Underprivileged recipients of medical care are the main victims of such a policy, for they are refused even basic health care in these circumstances. Emergency operations have been postponed or cancelled because even surgical thread is lacking.
Mundane illnesses are now life-threatening.
The public health sector is being actively de-institutionalised. Hundreds of thousands of medical insurance holders, who have put millions of dollars in the public insurance scheme, are not being offered any services in return. Similar irresponsible management of the meagre resources available is also threatening education. Meanwhile, security agencies are granted 36 per cent of total expenditures in the official budget. The supervisory committee of the PLC discovered that some of the security agencies receive millions of shekels behind the treasury's back.