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MK Gafni Calls for Multi-Year Agreement on Religious and Chareidi Funding Issues

By Eliezer Rauchberger

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni proposed reaching an agreement over the sum for the religious and chareidi educational systems along with other religious and chareidi issues and to make a multi- year arrangement to avoid the necessity for additional demands annually during the course of the budget year.

MK Rabbi Gafni issued these remarks during a Knesset Education Committee meeting to discuss the budget for religious education.

Rabbi Gafni noted that when he met with Minister Hirchson to discuss the issue, the Finance Minister told him such an agreement could be made on condition that the sum is taken from the base budget.

During the meeting MK Rabbi Shmuel Halpert said that funding for the yeshivas is in the framework of support funding rather than the basic budget, which causes the problem to reemerge every year. He claimed that the Finance Ministry does this deliberately to keep religious MKs in line. "If you're good little children you'll receive a few crumbs," he said.

 

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