The cabinet approved on Sunday recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee on Socioeconomic Change to reduce the cost of living in Israel. The measures are part of the competition chapter in the commitee's recommendations, and their approval is another effect of the tumultuous summer of social protests across Israel. Despite the approval, decisions on some of the committee's central recommendations, such as a reduction in the defense budget, implementing free and compulsory education for children aged three to four, and measures related to the employment Arab and ultra-Orthodox Jews will be discussed at a later date.