Israeli lawmakers yesterday passed the country’s first state budget in three years in a victory for the ideologically disparate coalition that unseated former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in June. Members of the Israeli Knesset approved a 609 billion shekel (US$195 billion) spending plan for this year and were to resume debate later in the day on a 573 billion shekel package for next year. “Celebration day for the state of Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett wrote on Twitter after the vote. “After years of chaos, we have formed a government, we have conquered Delta [variant of SARS-CoV-2] and...