Occupied Quds - Saba:
The Zionist newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" revealed that the cost of the war for the Zionist entity, until mid-January 2025, amounted to 150 billion shekels (about 42 billion dollars), with an average of 300 million shekels (about 84 million dollars) per day.
The newspaper stated that there are large gaps between the cost of fighting in Lebanon, the cost of Gaza Strip, and the "intensive days of fighting" (i.e. attempts to counter Iranian missiles).
According to it, the heaviest cost in security expenditures is "funding the reserve army," which amounts to 45 billion shekels (more than $12 billion).
However, "the Finance Ministry's Accountant General decided to allocate a lower budget, fearing that additional months would need to be funded with a temporary budget, and to create a reserve aimed at preventing the disruption of budgets for vital services for Israelis."
In the same context, a senior economic government source also expressed to Yediot Aharonot "real concern that the government's budget may not be approved by the legal deadline of March 31."
The source said: "If that happens, it will be a disaster." "If that happens, it will be a disaster," the source said: "Not running the government with the full budget required during the war, with a huge deficit and special security tasks that cannot be carried out, will cause enormous damage to the economy and security."
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