Last week, parliament’s finance committee approved the budget, paving the way for a final vote in the full plenum slated for Thursday night, although typically these votes extend until early the next day. “I don’t see any problems,” he said on the sidelines of a news conference to detail a new plan aimed at reducing housing costs. “We will finish all the legislation for the budget on Friday morning.” In a bid to lower housing costs that have skyrocketed since 2008, Lieberman and the housing and interior ministries unveiled a plan to rapidly increase the supply of new houses to...