In addition to the large debt of the agricultural sector, (10 billion shekel) there is also the question of foreign workers.
Those thrusting terriers of private enterprise were gathering the shekels from building office blocks, hotels, shopping precincts and other lush building projects.
We could not send our goods to every corner of the earth and rake in the shekels as we had done.
They think of nothing but how they can rake in the shekels.
The whisky distillers are just going to sit there raking in the shekels.
It will go to those who just sit and rake in the shekels.
It is all very well to dangle the carrot and offer the golden shekels to the miners to make them accept redundancy.
Because it is all about money—it is about shekels and it is about profit.