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Israel increases defense budget by 880 mln USD

Jerusalem, Sep 10 (Xinhua) The Israeli government decided to increase defense budget by over 3 billion new shekels (880 million U.S. dollars), the state's Prime Minister Office and the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.
This raises Israel's annual defense budget to about 22 billion dollars in 2020.
The defense supplement is one of a variety of special new plans, totaling 11 billion shekels (3.22 billion dollars) approved by the government as part of a detailed action plan for the 2020 continuing budget.
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