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There was widespread opposition to the latest round of cuts
announced by the Finance Ministry for next year's budget. The
Labor Party is threatening to vote against it, and one newly-
installed minister already resigned in protest. Reactions of outrage and shock were heard from all strata of
chareidi Jewry in Eretz Yisroel and abroad, in reaction to
the arson perpetrated against the Degel HaTorah offices in
Jerusalem this past Friday morning, 17 Av. A group of thugs
who seek to force their malevolent outlooks down the throats
of the entire chareidi community, which displays total
loyalty to the Torah leaders of the generation shlita,
set a blaze in the Degel Hatorah movement's offices that
destroyed most of the contents. The bill for deferred induction of talmidei yeshivos,
known as the "Tal Law," was approved last week in the Knesset
plenum, including a key paragraph that allows the Defense
Minister to postpone, with no time limitations, restrictions
or quotas, the military service of any talmid yeshiva
or avreich for whom Toraso umnoso.
Half of Israel's Work Force is not Working About 2.2 million of those of working age in Israel --
between ages 15 and 64 -- are not working nor are they
seeking work. According to recent figures of the Vaad
Hayeshivos, 37,000 men (who may not work at all) received
draft deferrals under the old arrangements, so that all of
these constitute less than 2 percent of all those not
working. Other chareidi men generally work at a rate similar
to all other Israelis. Security Cameras in Old City to Comply with Directives of
Gedolei HaPoskim Israel Police plan to operate security cameras in the
passageways of the Old City in accordance with halachic
directives issued by gedolei haposkim, Major General
David Tzur, staff director of the Internal Security Ministry,
told Interior Committee Chairman Rabbi Moshe Gafni. Hundreds of Yated Subscribers Win Prizes
Hundreds of Yated Ne'eman readers have already won
prizes, including household appliances and furniture sets, in
Yated LeBayis drawings. Legal and Moral Responsibility for "Collateral Damage"
Salah Shehadeh, head of the Izzadin Al Kassem Brigades of the
Hamas, was killed by a one-ton bomb dropped on the building
in which he was staying in Gaza. None of the surrounding
buildings was seriously damaged and none of the residents in
those buildings was killed.
Stewardess Without Wings
As I walk into the hotel lobby, I have the feeling of deja
vu. Dozens of people mill about with small suitcases. Young
Israeli families, singles, a handful of older people are all
busy organizing themselves for a four-day odyssey into their
collective past. Registration at the seminar. Expectations
weigh thick in the air with a good sprinkling of tension.
"Will they convince me of something that perhaps I'm not
ready for?" IN-DEPTH FEATURES With Their Body and Soul -- and Their Money -- or -- What
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