Exploring the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency wartime budget by the Knesset, which increases military spending but cuts funding for welfare and social affairs, highlighting a shift towards defense prioritization and impacting Israel's social contract.
The US Congress is refusing to scroll past the app’s links to China. If the bill they passed becomes law, the video-sharing network will be forced to find new owners. Binyamin Netanyahu’s emergency war-time budget has just been approved. What is the cost of Israel’s ongoing war (10:40)? And, snapping up Old Masters in Maastricht (18:14).
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