Overview
- The finance minister said he will cut taxes on employment income to ease pressure on the middle class and encourage workforce participation.
- He pledged dramatic tax incentives to promote Aliyah, framing immigration as both an economic tool and a national priority.
- He declared that Gaza reconstruction will not proceed until Hamas is dismantled militarily, politically, and administratively, with real demilitarization as a precondition.
- He called for greater efficiency in the defense establishment, saying spending should remain above pre-war levels but cannot continue at the recent extraordinary pace.
- He reaffirmed support for expanding the Abraham Accords under a “peace for peace” approach that rejects normalization conditioned on territorial concessions.