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Education Ministry Withholds Summer Security Subsidy in Talmudei Torah

by Betzalel Kahn

Unlike its policy in previous years, this year the Education Ministry has refused to subsidize the cost of security guards in chareidi educational institutions during the months of July and August, months when secular schools are on vacation. Throughout the rest of the year, the Education Ministry contributes to the cost of employing a security guard at every educational institution in Jerusalem.

This was revealed last week at a meeting of the Council of Talmud Torah Principals. The principals are understandably upset by this decision, due to their concern for the children's safety.

Rabbi Yitzchok Goldknopf, director of the Association of Talmudei Torah, wrote to director of the Department for Chareidi Education, Rabbi Binyomin Cohen, asking him in the name of the Talmud Torah principals to do his utmost to see to it that children attending educational institutions in the summer are not left without security arrangements.

"Jerusalemites have been deeply affected by the terrible accident in which a toddler and a thirteen-year-old girl were killed while on the sidewalk by a school transport vehicle which suffered brake failure. Let us not cause parents further anxiety. The principals of the talmudei Torah will back your efforts to help them secure what they deserve as citizens of the city," he writes.

Various officials in the Municipality say that the Education Ministry and the Internal Security Ministry are the bodies who subsidize security in the educational institutions. They transfer monies through the Jerusalem Municipality to the schools. Every cut in funding stems from decisions of these two government ministries.


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