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Last Update: 23/12/2003 22:45Knesset panel to reduce cuts to culture, welfare budgets By Zvi Zrahiya, Haaretz Correspondent The chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee Avraham Hirchson decided Tuesday, after meeting with officials from the treasury and the Labor Social Affairs Ministry to cancel the planned NIS 70 million cut to the 2003 welfare budget.The Finance Ministry will transfer NIS 35 million to the welfare budget, and the Ministry of Social Affairs will provide the rest of the money in order to prevent damage to weak sectors in the population. Treasury officials promised the Finance Committee on Tuesday to decrease the...