The government approved a proposal by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to give enlisted military members a 50 percent pay raise on Sunday.<br />Prime Minister Netanyahu and Minister Kahlon have said that the raise will be given starting December, and that more raises are to come.<br />Netanyahu said that, "On the eve of Hanukkah, there is no more proper moment to bring about the initiative to raise enlisted soldiers' pay, It's a sensible, right, and correct thing.<br />Finance Minister Kahlon added, "This is a correction of a many years-long wrong, and I'm glad it happened on out watch and we managed to correct this wrong.
