Yair Lapid: IDF colonel makes more than prime minister
Finance Minister Yair Lapid commented on the cuts to the defense budget in a Ynet interview: "The IDF will have to make due with its budget just like any government ministry. Every colonel earns more than the prime minister."
Lapid added: "If I had money, I'd be glad to give it to the security establishment, but I need this money for the Israeli middle-class." (Attila Somfalvi, Eran Tiefenbrun)
