{"id":645991,"date":"2026-10-14T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645991\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:56:08","slug":"israel-eyes-nis-one-billion-apache-helicopter-deal-diverting-arab-sector-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645991\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel eyes NIS one billion Apache helicopter deal, diverting Arab sector funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is set to allocate on Wednesday some NIS 3.5 billion for urgent defense procurement, including a roughly one billion shekel deal to purchase Apache helicopters, The Jerusalem Post confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry told the Post that close to a billion shekels earmarked for the Apache helicopter purchase would be diverted from funds allocated to a five-year plan to develop Israel\u2019s Arab sector. The remaining NIS 68 million would come from the 2026 state budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Government ministers were asked to approve the purchase via an urgent telephone vote, according to Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The decision comes two weeks before the elections, a period during which the government must generally exercise restraint and avoid actions that are not particularly urgent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A legal opinion attached to the government decision reportedly raised two main concerns: creating a situation in which the incoming government is faced with \u00a0an irreversible situation, as well as risking prioritization of party interests over the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p>Shir Perets contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is set to allocate on Wednesday some NIS 3.5 billion for urgent defense procurement, including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[249381,20492,17466,17469,1980,25262,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-645991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-apache-helicopter","tag-defense-industry","tag-defense-ministry","tag-defense-tech","tag-finance-ministry","tag-helicopter","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}