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Long School Day for Beitar Illit and Modi'in Illit

By G. Klein

The Knesset Education Committee gave final approval for a proposal by Education Minister L. Livnat to include Beitar Illit and Modi'in Illit in the extended school day program and the nutrition project. At first the program included all other areas with similar socioeconomic profiles, but left out those major chareidi cities.

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni urged the committee not to discriminate between students from different sectors by including all of the towns with a low socioeconomic level in the programs.

Committee Chairman MK M. Polishok requested the order be altered to funnel the additional funding added to the program budget to towns where the extended school day program is already in existence for kindergarten through sixth grade, a move that would have excluded chareidi towns.

MK Polishok said NIS 14 million is needed and the remaining NIS 6 million should be given to special education where the extended school day is already in operation, thereby leaving no funding for the chareidim.

Rabbi Gafni asked that MK Polishok's proposal be rejected in favor of the order the Education Minister signed to include Beitar Illit and Modi'in Illit. Despite the Chairman's objections the proposal passed with a large majority.

 

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