Executive Summary Cabinet should increase the MoSA’s shares in the budgets for 2017/2022 so that it can assume its duties and achieve its goals, pursuant to the agenda of national policies, and not to subject the MoSA’s budget to any expenditure rationalization or austerity plans. 2.2.2 The Right to Health In an important development on the international level, and in the context of realizing the human right to physical and mental health, the Special Rapporteur on such right issued a special report on 14 July 2017 which discussed the relationship between the human right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the corruption which might undermine and compromise the realization of such right9. Further, a Decree-Law concerning the transfer and transplant of human organs was issued to regulate the transfer, transplant, and preservation of human organs, and it defined the conditions and procedures of human organ donation. The MOH’s operational budget for 2017 reached approximately 9.7% of the total general budget, and it represented 11.32% of total current expenditures, while in 2016, the MOH’s operational budget represented 11.5% of total current budget. The salaries and wages represented nearly 45% of the budget, as compared with 50% in the budget of 2016. The development budget allocated for the health sector was not included in the general budget, although nearly 41 million Shekels were spent in 2017 as development expenditures and despite the Minister of Health’s announcement that approximately 290 million Shekels were spent in 2017 as development expenditures. The nature of development projects listed in the MOH’s budget did not reflect its trend toward establishment of the medical services. The development projects listed in the budget do not increase the capacity of the secondary and tertiary care which can increase the capacity of the hospitals, quantitatively and qualitatively, although a large portion of the 9 The United Nations General Assembly, a report entitled “The right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health”, which was presented in the 72nd session/ item 73-b dated 14/7/2017 The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) 37