Netanyahu has $137,744 bed installed for one flight Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement at his office in Jerusalem January 23, 2013. Tel Aviv: Benjamin Netanyahu had a £90,000 ($137,744) double bed installed on a plane to carry him and his wife Sara on their five-hour flight from Tel Aviv to London last month to attend Baroness Thatcher's funeral. The disclosure of the Israeli prime minister's £18,000-an-hour bed was made on Saturday evening as more than 10,000 Israelis filled the streets to demonstrate against austerity measures. Mr Netanyahu's staff attempted to contain the scandal on Sunday. A source close to him said: "The prime minister was not informed of the cost of installing the rest cabin. Once he learned of it he issued an immediate order to stop installing such cabins on all future European flights. Mr Netanyahu was also said not to have been informed of his £1,700 annual ice cream budget, which was also scrapped when it made headlines in February. The largest of Saturday night's protests took place in Tel Aviv, where thousands marched through the city's central boulevards railing against the prime minister and Yair Lapid, the formerly popular finance minister. The new budget, which will be presented to the Israeli cabinet this week, seeks to slash government spending by NIS 6.5 billion ($1.8 billion) and increase the popular tax burden, even extending to a new levy on burial plots. If the cabinet passes Mr Lapid's budget, Israelis will be expected to pay a property tax on every grave site they own or that holds the remains of a family member. Mr Lapid was propelled to office on a wave of demonstrations against the high cost of living in Israel that brought 500,000 protesters to the streets in 2011. The former news anchor presented himself as the champion of the social justice movement. Many of those who voted him into office now feel betrayed. His budget fails to reflect many recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee, which investigated the demands of the social protest movement. One senior citizen who joined protesters in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, told Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper: "It's not easy to march like this, but paying more taxes and bearing all the new cuts being levelled against us while Bibi [Netanyahu] is having fun in China or sleeping in his plane in a special bed is much harder. Enough, enough.