"The Minister of Interior Affirms Support for Kiryat Shmona, Arab Local Authorities' Budgets Have Not Been Reduced", a Clipping from al-Anbaa Newspaper, 14 August 1981

Dated 14 August 1981, this document shows a clipping from al-Anbaa Newspaper showing an article titled "The Minister of Interior Affirms Support for Kiryat Shmona, Arab Local Authorities' Budgets Have Not Been Reduced", where the Minister of the Interior, Police and Religious Affairs, Dr Yosef Burg, visited the northern region of the country, intending to review its conditions and find out its needs, then his answer was received to the inquiry about the possibility of resolving the financial crisis that the local authorities in the country suffer from in general and the Arab ones in particular, to answer that at the time it was decided to cut budgets in the Jewish areas, this did not happen in the Arab areas.