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- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich plans to sign a one-month, 50-agorot-per-liter gasoline price cut.
- The cut would reduce the price from a record NIS 8.27 per liter to about NIS 7.77.
- Finance Ministry advisers say no legal impediment exists for the minister to sign the reduction.
- The order awaits the attorney-general’s position before public comment can be published.
- The proposal is the second excise-tax reduction within weeks and comes amid election-period sensitivity.