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- Netanyahu failed to secure Lapid’s backing for an $8 billion military funding package.
- Defense Minister Israel Katz urged Lapid to approve the IDF’s urgent extra-funding request.
- The 25 billion-shekel boost would raise defense spending to 183 billion shekels, 9% of GDP.
- Lapid demanded cuts and removal of about 5 billion shekels from coalition funds.
- Israel missed its slot to order a Boeing Apache helicopter squadron amid the funding dispute.