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UTJ Meets with PM over Housing, Education and Guaranteed Income

By Yechiel Sever

The United Torah Judaism faction met early this week with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his Knesset bureau, where they raised for discussion problems related to housing, education and Guaranteed Income. The meeting was attended by Eyal Gabbai, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office; Tzvi Hauser, government secretary; Natan Eshel, director of the Prime Minister's Office; and P. Lerner, an advisor to the Prime Minister.

On the issue of housing they discussed the crisis in the general public, focusing on the chareidi sector, where young couples are unable to buy a decent apartment for a variety of reasons, such as high construction taxes, a lack of available lots, a shortage of 2- and 3-room apartments and price increases. Therefore the government should renew the location grants, provide mortgage loans with easy terms, reduce taxation, unfreeze land, reduce development costs and rescind the taxes.

Regarding education, they discussed the High Court decision on applying the Core Curriculum program in Chinuch Atzmai, which was adopted by the Minister of Education, with an immediate reduction in funding of tens of millions of shekels, and the Education Ministry's response to the High Court ruling, including an announcement by the ministry that it intends to get involved in the curriculum taught at talmudei Torah and Chinuch Atzmai and to assign inspectors — deviating from practices that have been in place since the country was founded — as well as a demand that the government continue to defend funding the yeshivos ketanos and other institutions.

 

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