It's being alleged that money earmarked for security and maintenance fees for settlements during a ten-month building freeze between 2009 and 2010 went to a "settler's council to be used for political purposes, including activities that run counter to government policy."
According to a report by Israeli television on Friday, as much as $42 million was secretly paid in recent years to local city councils who administer services in the West Bank. Lapid gave finance officials a week to determine whether the money went elsewhere.
The development comes at a politically convenient time for Lapid. Two very recent polls show a massive drop for Lapid's centrist party Yesh Atid. In both polls, among the biggest beneficiaries of Yesh Atid's decline in popularity were right-leaning, pro-settler parties.
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Source: thewire.com/
Author: ADAM CHANDLER
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