Mansour Abbas, chair of the Islamist Ra’am party that is a part of Israel’s current coalition, praised Monday morning the state budget that was approved after 3 years in which the country was operating without a budget.

“We are coming out of the Prime Minister’s Office after a long night of negotiation in which we obtained tremendous achievements for the Arab sector,” Abbas wrote on Facebook.

“An economic and social plan worth NIS30 million ($9.3 million) and a project to fight crime worth NIS2.5 million ($770,000),” he added.

Abbas and his negotiation team sat in a separate room inside the Prime Minister’s Office and held talks with Finance Ministry officials throughout the night. Ra’am is a part of the coalition but not an official member of the government.