Israel increases the defense ministry budget

Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak has decided to increase the budget of the Israeli defense ministry for the year 2001.

The Israeli mass media said the budget of the Israeli defense ministry will be increasing according to the decision taken by Barak on Sunday before he left for New York by 90 million Shekels, representing an increase of US $ 22 million in the year 2001.

Barak informed this decision to the chief of the Israeli army Shaoul Moufaz who, for his part, asked for increasing the budget of the Israeli army of one billion Shekels. According to this decision the budget of the Israeli war ministry will be in the year 2001 36.3 billion shekels.